Basque is a language spoken by Basques and other residents of the Basque Country, a region straddling the westernmost Pyrenees in adjacent parts of southwestern France and northern Spain. It is Europe's only known language isolate and the sole surviving language of Paleo-European origin.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count2021 estimate, native speakers. StatusWikipedia article on Basque: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27. Attested From (Year) Classification
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Basque is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.
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Basque is Europe's only known language isolate (with no relation to any other known languages) and the only surviving language of Paleo-European origin.
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1. Glottolog: Basque (Glottolog languoid basq1248)
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AES status: threatened
2. Omniglot: Basque language, alphabet and pronunciation
OmniglotBasque at a glance
Status : official language in the Basque Autonomous Community and a co-official in the Basque-speaking area of Navarre in Spain.
Language at a glance
First written : 11th century
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Basque ( BASK, BAHSK; endonym euskara [eus̺ˈkaɾa]) is a language spoken by Basques and other residents of the Basque Country, a region that straddles the westernmost Pyrenees in adjacent parts of southwestern France and northern Spain. Basque is Europe's only known language isolate (with no relation to any other known languages) and the only surviving language of Paleo-European origin.
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In 2021, out of a population of 2,634,800 over 16 years of age (1,838,800 in the Autonomous community, 546,000 in Navarre and 250,000 in the Northern Basque Country), 806,000 spoke Basque, which amounted to 30.6% of the population.
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Basque ( BASK, BAHSK; endonym euskara [eus̺ˈkaɾa]) is a language spoken by Basques and other residents of the Basque Country, a region that straddles the westernmost Pyrenees in adjacent parts of southwestern France and northern Spain.
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