Basque - A Language of Mystery

[@amarkitos1893]

Hi, I'm a native Basque speaker and I must admit I'm really impressed. Everything you've said is accurate af. Congratulations, this is an amazing video and it is clear that you have made a great deal of research. I hope you continue making such good videos.

[@enekoabasolo2106]

Esanten bazenun thanks ere ondo egongo zen denbora gutxigo egiteko

[@heidivanloosbroek8095]

So.. do you have Rh-negative blood? 😏🤔😁

[@amarkitos1893]

@@heidivanloosbroek8095 No I don't

[@jaenrub]

I'm curious if it's true and known to basque people that back when Philippines was a spanish colony, a lot of spanish migrated to Philippines are basque and where we got names like Iñaki ?

[@stevenduvall2549]

That's fascinating. How many languages do you speak?

[@OriginalSoundtrack]

Some interesting facts about basque (I'm basque): "Water" is said "ur" in modern basque, but in the ancient basque it was said "iz". Modern basque words including "iz" are: "izerdi", in english "sweat" (literally "half water"); "izotz", in english "ice" (literally "cold water"); "izurde", in english "dolphin" (literally "water pig"). Basques had its own 'pagan' religion (with its mythology). But betwen 10th and 17th century the Church supressed basque religion. Its said that the basque lenguage was alredy spoken when men were living in caves. Its easy to imagine the people back then saying: ur/iz (water), su (fire), zur (wood), aiz (rock), lur (ground), ke (smoke), jo (hit), jan (eat), lan (work), lor (achieve)... Actually "axe" is said "aizkora", which includes the word "aiz" (rock) on it. So its posible that when basque was ""created"" the axes were still made out of rocks.

[@oriolcanalborrachero6344]

me encanta vuestra cultura! (soy catalán jaja)

[@OriginalSoundtrack]

Oriol Canal Borrachero Y a mi la vuestra! (tengo familia en Santa Coloma de Gramenet jaja)

[@oriolcanalborrachero6344]

+Mena cerca de mi pueblo!

[@totalitaer.]

+Mena Interesting that the basque word Izquierda (left) made it into the spanish language. Is the IZ in izquierda also related to water? Iz for water seems to derive from the sound water makes when flowing. The same seems to be true for other languages. In Germany small streams are dubbed Bach, or Ach / Rach in dialect. This is obviously related to the sound created by flowing water. I wonder whether one can trace down aqua/agua to the sound of water flowing.

[@OriginalSoundtrack]

+wwwtotalitaerde Don't think so, because the word "left" in euskera is not "IZquierda" but "EZkerra". And it comes from "esku okerra" (ezkerra) which means 'wrong hand'. On the other hand, the word "right" is said "eskuma" (or "eskubi" in some dialects), and "esku" means "hand". This could be an evidence of something modern humans still do, which is relating the sides (right/left) with the hands. How did we learn the sides on school? Thats right, using our hands. About the sound of the water... It sounds "glub-glub" to me xD

[@itzzzzzi44]

"Emakume", in english "woman", is made up of two words : "eman" (in english "give") + "(k)ume" (in english "child). Almost all the words in basque are compound words by base-words (which are usually monosyllabic). The meaning of the compound word is the relationship between the meanings of the base words.

[@TheZenytram]

Is the case system also like this? Like a ancient word that they glue it together to the nouns

[@alfredthegreatkingofwessex6838]

Feminists: “wait that’s illegal”

[@ishtar2848]

@itziar unciti: what's the word for man?

[@itzzzzzi44]

@@ishtar2848 Gizon: Giza+on. "Giza(ki)" means "human" and "On" means "good".

[@ishtar2848]

@@itzzzzzi44 thank you for the quick answer 👍

[@britishbanananugget3723]

It’s been over 7 years since this video was uploaded, and I’m very proud of how far this channel has come in reach, and stayed very authentic and consistent. You’re a legend, Paul.

[@Langfocus]

Thanks! 😊 Well, the number of subscribers doesn’t mean much anymore, but the channel’s still doing alright 👍🏻 I’ll keep doing this as long as it’s viable. You never know what’s going to happen with algorithms and whatnot.

[@danielimmortuos666]

It just occurred to me I’ve been watching his channel for almost a decade!

[@Flugs0]

i'm so happy this channel exists

[@whoamireally6422]

I am basque, I speak basque thanks to school. A lot of students complain about the fact that it's almost compulsory to study every subject in that language. I think it's great, even if sometimes people whose mother tongue is spanish hace difficulties to express fully with the teachers or in essays and exams. The only way to protect it is by making it a big part of our culture, it's fragile, it's beautiful and very special. Euskara babestu!

[@loumachado6447]

I believe I am Basque. One of the highest concentration of people with Rh negative blood is in this area. My Mothers maiden name is Francesena.... also there’s a link to the Basque and Atlantean’s 🤗

[@pellobikandiortega3829]

@@pbj4184 It doesn't have a cost. People naturally converge their speaking into various laguages. The esperanto was basically what you are saying, and it didn't work, people just don't want to lose their cultural richness

[@pellobikandiortega3829]

@@pbj4184 Incentives to forget your mother language will never exist. Language is apart from a communication tool, a cultural expression, and eradicating a language will never have a positive impact on anything.

[@Beleidigen-ist-Pflicht]

@@pbj4184 I would say language as a mean of identification and heritage emphasis is enough reason wanting to preserve it, is it not?

[@Beleidigen-ist-Pflicht]

@@pbj4184 hey dude, I despise taxes too.

[@nebulicdisaster3351]

I have mad respect for the Basque speakers, not only did they survive for 12,000 years of constant speaking. But they survived the Indo European expansion, The Celtic Expansion, the Roman Expansion, The Spanish speaking World, the Arab expansion, and now the English speaking world, if I’m not wrong I think the Germanic tribe invasion after the fall of Rome. And possible many more invasive things. Your people probably went through hell to keep this amazing language alive and active. Mad respect

[@HYDROCARBON_XD]

12,000 years? Basque is just like 6000 years like most European languages

[@rrorriMkcalB]

@@HYDROCARBON_XD I think truthfully we don’t really know exactly how old the language is… but I feel like 6,000 is probably a closer estimate? but what do I know

[@roberfred760]

​@@HYDROCARBON_XD much older

[@Jiub_SN]

@@HYDROCARBON_XD are you stupid or did you not watch the video?

[@AmicusAdastra]

@@roberfred760 how do u know

[@erlgr]

I'm a native Basque speaker as well, I also speak Spanish and English like most of the Basque speakers in this comment section. I really like how basque and non-basque people are interacting and asking questions in this comment section, it's nice to be able to talk about this with people around the world :) Cheers, y'all!

[@leomuar1286]

I am Basque and I have to admit that I love to see people from other countries that are not spain speak about our language so that more people know it

[@soilareyes7967]

hello my name is soila. i came to this video by doing research on my name. is it true that soila means simple

[@leomuar1286]

@@soilareyes7967 Yeah, it has more meanings but simple is one of them.

[@tasospat4919]

My girlfriend and I went to Bilbao end of this April (1 week ago from the time I'm writing this comment). We both speak Spanish and love Spain in general and were excited to discover Bilbao which is a beautiful city. However we were surprised that we didn't hear many people speak Basque between each other. Like even when we watched Athletic vs Sevilla we heard people speak Spanish to each other. Nonetheless it's good that officially it's still around and being taught as well as there being signs in Basque. It's a unique language and should be preserved. Btw we were speaking Greek to each other (because we're from Greece) and an old lady on the street suddenly was staring at us so then we thought maybe from a distance she thought we were speaking Basque and was surprised 😂

[@leomuar1286]

@@tasospat4919 Yeah, in the cities like Donostia, Gasteiz or Bilbao there are much fewer people who speak Basque than in smaller towns. I suppose it will be because in general the cities attract a lot more people from outside the Basque Country. Aniways, hope this info helps you and you are doing well there in greece

[@bellumomnium7561]

He says that not all Basques speak Basque, only 27 percent. Why is that? I am Kurdish from turkey and i love EUSKAL HERRIA

[@aimarab666]

Dude, I am basque, so proud of it, and I do speak basque, it is compulsory to learn it in school, and we always try not to loose our language. Thanks for showin it to the world

[@iamtheballerr]

I need to learn that language.

[@alpacamale2909]

Idiotas como Franco lo entendieron mal, el Vasco es parte de España y nos enriquece a todos.

[@papaicebreakerii8180]

Didn’t know Quavo was from the Basque Country

[@ldmtag]

@@edwinhidalgo1242 DNA proves nothing. Being basque or in my case being russian is, first of all, a cultural thing. Though I agree you with those 5% would always be more basque than any random person with the same language and culture knowlege but without any genetic similarities.

[@ldmtag]

@yusuf kocaman no, it doesn't. I mean, it partially does, but there's more. Within one nation DNA may be very diverse because of blood mixing. Culturally I'm Russian but, genetically speaking, my father and his parents are Ukrainian, my mother claims to be russian but her mother has some clearly mongolid facial features and some of her father's ancestors are Caucasians. Almost every family has that. That's why I'm convinced that being Russian, Basque or Turkish is first of all a cultural thing.

[@martinjauregui1c]

I'm Basque and very proud because of your video, you did a very good job describing this beautiful lenguage! _Eskerrik asko, adiskide!_

[@Outoftime11]

Igerrogog kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHy7n61vjrKUb6M

[@sayantanadak8128]

bro u are spanish first..... u should proud of that

[@xabierlexartza]

Ni euskalduna naiz eta harro nago. Espanola EZ naiz. You cannot be proud of being a Spaniard ... Spain is PAIN. @@sayantanadak8128

[@turkoositerapsidi]

@@xabierlexartza XD

[@MaialenAlonsooficial]

@@sayantanadak8128 no, he is human first and basque second 😂

[@mysteriousDSF]

The best comment section I've ever seen with so many fascinating contributions. Thank you people - Basque culture is amazing

[@t.ist666]

Long-timer Langfocus fan here. I was just revisiting this video. I had totally forgot that it opened with you rejoicing and reflecting on hitting 50,000 subscribers. It's January 2023 right now and you're up to 1.4 million - incredible! You must have put in so much time and hard work to get here, Paul. I for one (as well as at least 1.4 million others) appreciate and enjoy your videos. Grazie mille, danke schön, terih makasih, merci, harigato and thank you!!!

[@Nerea810]

Hello! I'm a basque native speaker, I have spoken Basque and Spanish since I was little. I came across your video and I loved it 😄 It's great that a person who lives far from here can explain the language in such a good way. Basque is really difficult to learn, it requires patience and effort; however, I encourage people to do it, because it is beautiful!

[@goutd0utopic138]

Because it came from Armenia

[@ldmtag]

Is basque related to etruscan as some enthusiasts say? Have you tried reading etruscan scripts? I tried reading them in russian and now I'm pretty confident russian-etruscan relation theories is pseudo-science.

[@KhalidAli-jc7cv]

Can you teach me basqu language

[@BB-bt1kn]

Basque girls are really dificult to catch.

[@vgjl1824]

@@goutd0utopic138 Armenia?? Hahaha is a no indoeuropean language

[@vidcas1711]

Now we get to Basque in the glory of this language.

[@rinkokonoe8644]

ahhh

[@swagycomrad52]

gg

[@aristotle358]

+VIDCAs17 Well funny! :-)

[@axisboss1654]

If I make a Conlang based off of Basque. Basque wouldn't be an isolate anymore. I don't really like isolates so I should make a Lang similar to Basque

[@aristotle358]

Wario Toad 32 "based off of..." That makes no grammatical sense. Master basic English grammar first, then we might understand your comment.

[@Simplicius95]

Im from Andalucia(south Spain) and for me, the Basque language and folklore is the native culture of all the peninsule before the celtic and roman invasion, im proud of have this people in my country and the rest of the country should learn about them

[@metacosmos]

do you know that in Tartessos they spoke too an Iberian language related to the Basque ?

[@metacosmos]

consiste en odiar todo lo madrileño por considerarlo de tarados, comparados con ellos que son tan fuertes y puros.

[@barbatvs8959]

My first video is me as a Spanish conquistador with real armour. I am an Iberian of the original stock, not Germanic like light-eyed Visigoths that dominate Spain today politically. I am very interested in Basque. I met Basques in Miami. They looked like ordinary Spaniards. It is their language that is different. The whole Latin-replaced-Basque-and-other-Iberian-tongues explanation fits the racial near-identicalness of Basques and their neighbours. The Spanish Empire was the coolest, and bigger than the Mongol since the latter would drown in the Spanish lake, the Pacific Ocean!

[@palossmosti6122]

MIGUEL DAEWOO y en hacer volar a Carrero, el cabron no pagó ni el viaje de vuelo

[@palossmosti6122]

MIGUEL DAEWOO soy Vasco pero considero a la banda ETA terroristas y asesinos, ahora bien, estos rojos cabrones hicieron bien en llevarse al puto infierno a algunos de los fascistas que atormentaron españa durante 36 años

[@mimi-hm2ez]

I'm Japanese, and had a sense of affinity for Basque language. The Basque grammar is like SOV, just like Japanese.

[@erlgr]

Damn, I was wondering why some phrases I tried to learn/read in Japanese were kind of "comfortable" for me while so many people had issues when trying to get the meanings in the correct order. TIL!

[@hollyhockgod]

I'm basque and I'm learning Japanese, and I have found some funny coincidences between the two: japanese: 鳥。 basque: txori 「チョリ」 japanese: ◯◯だ。 basque: ◯◯da. japanese: ばかり。 basque: bakarrik. Also, one of the basque gods, the dragon Sugaar, in some places is called Sugoi, as Suge= 蛇 and Goi=上. So it's literally すごい.

[@theoneitself]

The same applies for Quechua (a South American native language) it is SOV !!! So many "isolated" non Proto Indo European languages that use SOV

[@asgerhougardmikkelsen8770]

​@@theoneitself about 45% of languages use that word order

[@abelpower]

There is a Japanese Woman with a very good basque level she translated some basque books into Japanese and some Japanese books into basque.

[@RamadhaniRiszky]

I need this language to be available in Duolingo.

[@harlizuga]

"Bakea ez da inoiz aukera bat izan". Duolingoko hontza 2020

[@osasunaitor]

@@harlizuga Holako meme bat euskaraz irakurtzen dudan lehen aldia da ta, egia esateko, ondo geratzen da :D

[@yaizalorenzogarcia3999]

Oh trust me you don't. I have been learning it since I was born and I still find it kinda difficult, mostly because it has a lot of types of verbs.

[@Fummy007]

So they can make you watch ads while learning nothing?

[@brazenserpent7]

Check out Memrise, and start a few Basque courses via the browser, and then log in again on mobile. Enjoy the language! Gizona altua da. Etxe handia da. Fun times!

[@rachelfiedler1657]

There is a pretty large Basque community in the US (Boise, Idaho specifically) that have basque language preschools and festivals ( and some really good restaurants too).

[@an4contre]

Wait, what? Do they also speak Basque? :O

[@barbarapolhamius5980]

Also here in central California, especially near Fresno.

[@Beatles0223]

@pepe0801 But Boise, Idaho???

[@seleneyang2938]

from the Basques： the God is everywhere, but we Basques already are everywhere

[@bLaKeAnThOnY0]

Yeah I’m from Nampa, a city just outside of Boise. My soccer coach and his family are basque

[@ooohalaooo7331]

Sir, now you have more subscibers than there are native speakers of Basquie :)

[@IBMboy]

Both numbers need to go up! :D

[@iraide6157]

unfortunately :'( (here a basque speaker)

[@Serendip98]

This is because some Basques subscribed several times.

[@jonandermuruaga7325]

Nola dakizu?

[@jonandermuruaga7325]

Kontu izan Euskal Herria Txikia dala!!! Basque Country is small!!!🤣🤘👏👍

[@julenmadariagamurua7801]

We, Basque people, will never give up, if our language dies, our land dies

[@cernogoraz6980]

But you have no children (average is almost lowest in Spain with 1.15 children per woman) so clearly not enough basque care about their future. You will half in number with each generation

[@julianrolheiser6061]

Yall gave up on producing kids though. Like damn.

[@diouranke]

" They were left alone for thousand of years" what a blessing

[@eljanrimsa5843]

That was a strange statement. They live in an area where people and armies had to pass through forever. They have easily accessible iron ore and developed an iron industry that basically started in the Iron Age. They have good harbours, plenty of fish, and were renowned for their whaling and shipbuilding skills centuries before everybody else started whaling. They had a unique relationship to the Spanish king which allowed them to govern themselves. I wouldn't call that isolation.

[@thomasmartin6299]

@@eljanrimsa5843 thank you

[@lepeangel3700]

Eljan Rimsa y wouldn’t u call that isolation u literally didn’t say anything about them being attacked🤷‍♂️

[@MaSsiVeGaming1]

They weren't really "left alone for thousands of years" though.

[@maialendch4001]

@@lepeangel3700 we were attacked, but not dominated as hard as the whole spain was. yes, though centuries people would come across our lands, but they would not stay because there was nothing interesting for them. we were not "left alone", but we were not "completelly dominated", until the Spaniards came to screew our asses, of course.

[@alejandromaringutierrez7323]

I' m not basque but I really appreciate their culture and way of life!

[@paolaparodi979]

Sono Ligure e ammiro chiunque conservi le proprie tradizioni. Anni fa avevo conosciuto Beronia , una ragazza di origini Basche .Abbiamo simpatizzato subito perché dall' intonazione della sua voce avevo capito il significato della frase.

[@arch3223]

There should have been an honorable mention to Boise, Idaho. The place with one of the largest Basque communities outside of Basque country. I see a Basque flag everyday on my way to and from work.

[@mr_yutzy]

I had no idea. Thanks for the fun fact!

[@anderski01]

We have Basque festivals like every month here. Really cool way to see the culture

[@3riccar10]

What region does your Basque language originate from in Boise Idaho? Western, upper, etc?

[@Androvich91]

I think a lot of French Basques immigrated there, Spanish Basques usually went to Argentina.

[@holoholopainen1627]

When Did They arrive ?

[@basquo2]

Thank you for bringing light to Euskera. We need more people like you that are lovers of language in this world. I am a Basque American, have only learned about half of the language, but have immersed myself deeply in our culture and history. Many many thanks. Eskerrik asko

[@malfestioscafe404]

Alajaina, hori benetako Euskal abizen bat da JAJAJAJ.

[@irishboy06]

Ondo esanda

[@gorkabengoechea5829]

I'm basque, and all I have to say is thank you! this video is masterpiece.

[@Langfocus]

+Gorka Bengoechea Thank you, I appreciate that!

[@ratimaisuradze4728]

Gorka Bengoechea we have more 200 same words

[@desichalkos5627]

+Tigran Mkhitarian Oh look, another Armenian whining about how oppressed his people are. LONG LIVE BROTHERS TURKS AND AZERBAIJANIS

[@julen3917]

DJ Trevi I do, you can ask me if you want :)

[@concernedcitizen6313]

Tigran Mkhitarian Isn't Armenia in the Caucasus area?

[@ricardos6472]

I'm so happy for this guy. When he says at the start of the video that he reached 50K subs, I was like "dude, you've come far"

[@Langfocus]

Not really. The number of subscribers doesn’t mean anything. It just means someone clicked a button, but most of them only watch one video on a language they are interested in and never watch again. The number of views is the same as when I made this video.

[@Toucanyou]

@@Langfocus Hey it means you've been consistent in creating good content through the years! You shouldn't undervalue the achievement you've made and the amount of interesting knowledge you've given to others through your channel, even if a lot of people are only interested in a little bit of it. I personally am very fascinated with language and want to learn more (just english and spanish now) and your channel has been a tremendous resource in learning more about the unique cultural and linguistic backgrounds of different areas.

[@szolanek]

@@Langfocus Try to create an Old Greek course. They have a pretty good idea how it sounded.

[@nickark4807]

How many does he have? KZbin won't show me for some reason

[@ehhe4381]

Spanish (Castilian to be precise) phonology is based on Basque. I've heard the phrase: "Castilian is what came out of a Basque trying to speak Latin".

[@c8adec]

Technically speaking that's called "el sustrato vasco"!

[@rinkakiotsokume7748]

There are words in spanish that are more related to basque to latin. For example, in spanish we say "izquierda", that sounds like "ezkerra" (basque) and not like other latin words (like "sinistra")

[@danbytp]

Aaah,now I see.

[@osasunaitor]

This is very likely true, indeed. Castilian surged in the Latin-speaking areas that bordered the Basque areas (around Burgos/La Rioja), so the Basque influence over early Castilian is more than likely.

[@diegorvila]

It is indeed so. In fact, the reason for which Spanish only has 5 vowels, much less than other romance languages, is that those 5 are the Basque vowels.

[@andresperedo1275]

As Spaniard from a region without any other language than Castillian, I think it would be really cool if every school teaches as a third language one of the other co-oficial languages of the country. I think that would be very enriching. And basque, of course, is so cool and weird and unique! A pity they didn't teach me that!

[@leireads.]

I'm basque, and since we are kids we speak basque. I wouldn't be able to learn basque if I wasn't native hdhdhshs

[@maarkeel04]

@@leireads. me neither, baldintzas are difficult and also deklinabidea

[@yimveerasak3543]

Your idea is worth an implementation. It enriches Spain.

[@andresperedo1275]

@@yimveerasak3543 Yes, but it will never happen. The mentality in the right wing is still Spanish nationalistic and their politicians framed a lot of their campaigns in the context of "not giving up to the peripherial nationalisms" (So Spanish nationalism after all)

[@Albergarri788]

DIOS imagínate poder elegir aprender vasco como opción, sería increíbles. Me abriría las puertas para seguir aprendiendo por mí mismo. Y podríamos ser más empáticos con la gente que usa indistintamente el español y su lengua regional. Sería maravilloso

[@kierstenreynoso2195]

Unique languages like this are so amazing and fascinating to me.

[@darthsion3844]

There should be a greater effort to study the language's history and preserving it

[@superkamiguru6856]

Other Unique languages are Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian. All three languages are related and are among the only non-Indo-European Languages in Europe (west of Moscow, at least) alongside Basque. The languages are all from West Siberia.

[@cuenc3]

unique is the perfect word to describe basques

[@unixlv708]

@Super Kami Guru I am a native Finnish speaker and I can agree with you. I'm actually studying Hungarian.

[@irishboy06]

eskerrik asko

[@mrmoth2487]

My old Spanish teacher is a native Basque speaker.

[@sgc_9332]

@@bandolerox137 la lengua es basque y el territorio Basque country

[@mosquitotigre7078]

@@bandolerox137 Si le llamas vasco o vascuence tampoco pasa nada, no te pongas así, jejejeje

[@mosquitotigre7078]

@@manexokina7989 Si lo haces, en primer lugar, te equvocas, y, en segundo, estás demostrando que eres un imbécil sin ningún argumento y como último recurso sólo te queda insultar. Lo único que tengo asumido es que si desaparece el vasco pasará lo mismo que cuando despareció el latín: absolutamente nada...

[@mosquitotigre7078]

​@latxa"el latín no desapareció, evolucionó, eso es MUY diferente. y para ti seguro que no pasara nada porque la palabra "empatía" se escapa de tu comprensión, pero los que lo tenemos de lengua madre, y los que valoran la riqueza lingüística mas allá de sus ombligos si nos sentiríamos afectados." Te felicito por tener el latín como lengua materna, eso significa que no ha desaparecido y que aún se habla (como lengua materna, puesto que todavía quedan latinistas, sobre todo en el Vaticano), y tu edad debe acercarse a los 1.500 años. Enhorabuena, no todo el mundo llega a esa edad, ni siquiera a una décima parte !!! Supongo que también te sentirías afectado por la desaparición del sistema PAL en la televisión, de los 8 pistas en los coches, de los equipos de sonido cuadrafónicos y por los monitores de fósforo verde en los ordenadores (suponiendo que los hayas conocido, de lo cual no estoy seguro). Si lo tienes como lengua materna, tranquilo, nadie te lo va a quitar si es lo que temes... Hay que ser un poco empático y entender que los idiomas no desaparecen porque haya gente que vaya quitando idiomas a los demás, pero claro, para eso hay que ser mínimamente inteligente. Los idiomas no desaparecen por motivos emocionales, sino por motivos prácticos. Lo que ha evolucionado ha sido el español, podemos comprobar como cambia a lo largo de la historia, con la gramática de Nebrija en 1492 hasta nuestros días.

[@mosquitotigre7078]

@UC1lYVgki8263j2nQYDQcz1A Con tu retahíla de insultos lo único que haces es retratarte. El latín desapareció dando lugar a las lenguas romances... Tanto te cuesta de entender? El latín vulgar, sumado a las lenguas autóctonas acabó deviniendo en lenguas romances, pero no fue una evolución. Si hubiera sido así, hablaríamos todos la misma evolución del latín... Pero no. Lo que está claro es que debes tener 6 años... De edad mental

[@lumbro5448]

as basque, i'm grateful to you. Thank you for uploading this video

[@jongochongo1370]

pasa tocayo

[@lumbro5448]

Jongo Chongo de donde eres?

[@jongochongo1370]

Iñigo Lumbreras Ederra que quieres d emi D:

[@lumbro5448]

saber si eres de euskal herria o no, no hace falta que te hagas ilusiones e

[@jongochongo1370]

lo soy lo soy, ze uste diak? XD

[@jaimemunoz5148]

I’ve been watching your videos for a few years and I’m very very impressed with your knowledge of so many languages. I was born in California from Mexican parents. My great grandfather moved to Sinaloa Mexico from the Basque country. I was lucky enough to visit the Spain and drive north all the way to San Sebastián. It is a beautiful area of Spain and I can see people that reminds me of my family.. thank you for all your fantastic work…!

[@sans_puns_4594]

Hello! I'm from the Basque Country and I speak Euskera. It was pretty intereting to look how other people talk about your own language, and all the information given was correct. And now, I'll write down some useful sentences that you can use: -Kaixo, zer moduz? ~Hello, how are you? -Ondo nago, eta zu? ~I'm fine, and you? -Zer ordu da? ~What time is it? -Non dago __ kalea? ~Where is the __ street? -Eskerrik asko! ~Thank you! I'll continue if you want!

[@unaxvicuna4267]

Euskera klase bikaina! Ondo pasa.

[@iamtheballerr]

yes!Please keep writing I need to learn this language...

[@giantandomniscientlevitati8969]

Go on!

[@gerryboutet7041]

Please continue

[@sans_puns_4594]

@@gerryboutet7041 Sure! But what should I translate next?

[@jrbowlder]

Howdy. You may be interested to know that there's a large and very proud Basque community here in Idaho. In Boise, there's a "Basque Quarter" that includes festivals, a museum, and a community center. Pretty interesting!

[@kennethreilly1693]

I hang out on the Basque Block every time I'm in town. It's one of my favorite things about Boise.

[@Dubbudha]

Interestingly, some of those communities sometimes even preserve words and expressions that already disappeared in the original dialects or languages.

[@giantandomniscientlevitati8969]

What really? How? Do yoy speak basque everyday??

[@anthonybermeo5490]

Please know that the University of Nevada Reno has a wonderful Basque Cultural Library and Study curriculum for Advanced Studies. I love the place . Best wishes to all Basques or not Basque. The Staff there are from the heart.

[@kadini77]

There’s also a large Basque community in Bakersfield, California. We have several Basque restaurants that are favorites in the area.

[@LucaS-ei6cz]

Thanks for giving visibility to our language! Eskerrik asko Langfocus!!!

[@author7027]

wait. if we, Slavic people, will put words according to your grammar and cases, it will be still understandable but only sound like a poetic expression. words are totally different. but how have you appeared at your place before most of the people ? you should have fairy tales about it.

[@novedad4468]

@@author7027 they were definitely people when basques appear. Its just that they were wipped out when new people arrived at the zone. But, in the ancient pagan mitology, we do have fairytales that tell how the modern, christian people arrived an we, the original pagan tribes, adopted christianity, for example

[@author7027]

@@novedad4468 just a moment. if you are Basque, let me ask you questions to clear the situation

[@Janika-xj2bv]

The suppression of a language should be considered a crime against Humanity.

[@ConstellationOrion]

yeah you should just let them build their identity and strengthen it even more until the moment they rebel against the government they live in. Yeah, it is sad to lose a language and consequently a nation but a country who does that has got a point. To keep the country as a whole and prevent any division. This will keep the country more balanced. Just, you can't approach everything emotionally. Turkish government is also doing that. Kurdish is not taught in school or cannot be used as a regional language (for any language though). Because of the high density of Kurdish people. This would cause them to get alienized even more and eventually increase the amount of Kurdish people who don't feel they belong to turkey and build a new nation. Both sides are right and have their own viewpoints. you can't understand it without living in such countries. You will just say freedom but sometimes freedom is a bad thing in terms of keeping the country in peace.

[@tonycook1624]

Ironed your black shirt today Mr Orion?

[@ConstellationOrion]

@@tonycook1624 what do you mean mr cook?

[@jodysoberon4477]

@@Mag-zv7xs No language should be suppressed.

[@jodysoberon4477]

@@Mag-zv7xs "fairytale" All one word; a "tale" is a story, not the hindmost part of an animal.

[@xnreyescj]

Native language to Yoda.

[@zacnieprawisz9171]

xnreyescj Best comment, deserves more likes :'D

[@wentaosong]

Yoda means solider in Sanskrit

[@mich5502]

I think that the native language to Yoda is Russian because in it you can change words in the sentence how you want and nobody will say that you’re doing something incorrectly :)

[@wentaosong]

Михаил Бычков The magic of Russian languages

[@siratshi455]

@@wentaosong russian is shit c'mon(as a native speaker)

[@elputoamodebaraka9864]

Hi, I'm Basque and I thank you for making our language known, Euskera, good video and very well explained Greetings from Bilbao

[@Dryadalis8.13]

I'm basque and proud of it

[@toph3487]

Berdiiiiinn!!! Jo, ez nun espero horrelako bideo bat aurkitzea😂😂

[@glazf1]

Miren Nieves nik ere ez.

[@unimz6669]

Egia esan nik erez eta 1,9 millioi pertsonak ikusi dute

[@toph3487]

@@unimz6669 Harrigarria, baietz?

[@unimz6669]

@@toph3487 bai horixe

[@ibaianerperez2274]

As a Basque person and native speaker I love to see how well done is this video. I would like to see more deepest into the verbs conjugation, which I think is also special.

[@peterk.9571]

Apparently I'm descended from Basque conquistadors in the Caribbean, so I'm very happy to be learning about this very resilient people! Love to the Euskara, my newly found cousins!

[@marlene97280]

Which island in Carribbean ?

[@andercilveti4526]

It is so cool to see basque being analyzed so deeply and accurately from the prespective of an English speaker.

[@kerianbidondo2040]

I'm basque and I can say that this vidéo is very well-done because I learnt some things 👍👏

[@toph3487]

Same

[@ldmtag]

@@edwinhidalgo1242 cool!

[@ldmtag]

Is basque and etruscan related?

[@napabilirim]

@@ldmtag That's a good theory- I wonder... Tbh Etruscan seems like it's not Indo-European, but it's a very close relative of Indo-European, like they share a common origin

[@JuHunKimkabraham]

I know it sounds very awkward to many people. However, the order of words is so amazingly similar to Korean which is known to be another isolated language. Both languages have S+O+V structure. The perfect aspect and the ending with "da" (is) and its variables like dio and du are so similar too. Take one sentence for example from your clip, "The Child fell in the street." could be translated to "Ai-ka Kil-wuie Numeo-jud-da." 아이가 길위에 넘어졌다. Ai(child)+ka(case for subject) Kil(street)+wuie(on, or upon for original meaning but like "in" for your term) Numeo (fall or fell)+jud(perfect aspect)+da(is). "The man has given the book to the child." could be translated into Korean, 아저씨가 아이에게 책을 주었다. Ajeosi-ka Ai-eoke Chaek-ul Ju-eod-da. It is Ajeosi(the man)+ka (case for subject) Ai (child)+eoke(to), Chaek(book)+ul(case for object) Ju(give)-eod(perfect aspect)+da(is). Anyway, it is very interesting.

[@joophoekstra8246]

These similarities could maybe say something about the time at which these languages came to being; the same time period.

[@teknetekne]

i also found its structure similar to turkish. it is strange but basque might be close to transeurasian languages

[@utriaininja]

So basically it could be easier to learn Basque if you would speak Korean instead of Spanish? 😅

[@JuliosStudio]

Thanks for breaking this down. Very insightful. Sounds like most indigenous languages. Very beautiful to hear it

[@xabier1375]

Good video. Very well explained. I'm Basque and native Basque speaker and I can say that all explanations were perfect. Anyways, the efforts on reviving Basque is not being done by this post-Francoist government we have, but by the Basque government. Thanks a lot! Eskerrik asko!

[@panchovilla7744]

The central government hasen't done much, but they gave the basque country the administrative competency ro do it, unlike in France where it is not official or taught in schools

[@inkms]

Tampoco te pases, es cierto que el PP o partidos como Ciudadanos son muy centralistas, pero en general los gobiernos de España durante la democracia han sido relativamente comprensivos en cuanto al euskera. Por eso hay enseñanza en euskera y cada vez hay más hablantes nativos. Tan solo compara la situación con Francia, aquí la cosa esta mucho mejor. Te lo digo como canario de ascendencia euskalduna (también lo hablo), que creo que tengo un punto de vista casi imparcial.

[@ValetudoTime]

+Iñaki Martín Soroa Perdona que te diga que lo de la educación y las autonomías no empezó con esta "democracia" sino con las 2nda republica en 1931, donde los estatutos de autonomía de pís vasco y navarra ya existían, mi abuela estudío en una ikastola desde 1931 hasta 1936.

[@panchovilla7744]

+ValetudoTime pero en esta democracia se tomo la decisión de volverlas a implantar pudiendo haber elegido un sistema mas centralista ya que en ese momento los nacionalismos estaban relativamente débiles, sobre todo el catalán

[@inkms]

+ValetudoTime Tienes razón, pero cualquier cosa que hicieran en la segunda republica se vio anulado por el franquismo por lo que se tuvo que empezar de 0.

[@josuricoechepare4910]

You have reminded me how proud I feel to be one of the few in the world who speaks Basque or what we call it here "euskera"

[@kennethreilly1693]

Kaixo! Euskara ikasten ari naiz eta Euskal Herrira joan nahi dut.

[@Sakonetatar1]

@@kennethreilly1693 Oso interesgarria lagun. Ongi etorria izango zara :)

[@Shrey_Shrek]

@@Sakonetatar1 u r the one who commented on Actovania's Askatesunera video

[@Sakonetatar1]

@@Shrey_Shrek You got a sharp eye :) I like to read the comments on videos relating to Basque culture and people, as you may have guessed

[@Shrey_Shrek]

@@Sakonetatar1 I see. It is always fascinating to have one's culture talked about in a video.

[@peanutworkshophuang5276]

Basque, the treasure of ancient Europe

[@isurdea]

As a basque and native basque speaker I am I just wanted to thank you for showing one of most valuable treasures that our culture has and for explaining it so well. Eskerrik asko! 🤜🤛

[@isurdea]

Exactly... The right way is "txo". We usually say "eh, txo" like in english it's said "hey buddie" or "hey dude". Btw... "Agur" means "Goodbye". You should have said "kaixo" to say "hello" 😉

[@Catlily5]

@@isurdea How do you pronounce the "x" ?

[@marmag4976]

I'm Basque and watching this video was amazing. It's clear you did a lot of research and it was a very entertaining video. The fact that the Basque language is so unique and different but it'll probably disappear in some years it's honestly heartbreaking. If anyone is thinking about learning a new language try Basque please because it's v cool and you'd also be helping in it's preservation

[@marmag4976]

Also I gotta say that not the whole of Spain is trying to protect the language, all the effort comes from the people in the Basque Country and Navarra, the rest of Spain doesn't care much.

[@marmag4976]

@Alazar Wanderer yeah, not only men, everyone says it, and it's written "tso"

[@aramarmenios7660]

Basqologist Vahan Sarkisian was a Academician, Linguist, Translator, Poet, Member of the International Association of Hispanics, Director of the Basque-Armenian international journal Araxes, Author of Basque-Armenian dictionary, His book on Internal Reconstruction of the Basque language was published by German authorities, Proficient in more than 5 languages, published more than 66 books and articles and almost all his books were published by Basque and Spanish governments and institutions.... published numerous books and studies between Armenian-Basque connection including a first ever Armenian-Basque dictionary in 2001 (identified almost 600-shared parallel words between the two languages. In the end you find a extract of it with 26 words as a example (at the end of this text). Basque linguist Edward Spencer Dodgson says the same and by studies from German philologist Joseph Karst in 1928 who discovered more than 300 Basque-Armenian lexical, grammatical and phonetic matches in both languages. Legend of the Basque people of a folklore in Rapcal valley, in Province of Navarra tells us that the leader of Basque was called „Haytor“ arrived from Armenia with seven sons found seven settlings in Navarra.... ancient manuscript found in that village gives evidence of its historic chronic and confirmed the spoken legend. In Basque language the name of their ancestor Haytor means „Received from Haya“ which exactly corresponds to Armenian „Hay tor“ meaning „a Grandson of Armenian“. The well-known German scientist Joseph Karst mentioned that too. Armenians ancestor Hayk had a grandson named Pask (in other Armenian dialects Bask). In Basque language an expression „haytoren seme“ exists which means „the son of Haytor“. I can recommend this presentation of Armenian-Basque connection for more Informations on youtube: "Armenian Origins of Basque: a presentation by Vahan Setyan" here the link to the video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHy7n61vjrKUb6M Quote: „If they asked the Basque people where they are from, they would answer - Armenac, which is the same as saying - from Armenia, from where the Basque orginated“ -Echave the Elder (17th Century) Quote „City of Armenac`s ancient inhabitants near Spain are our people and in our Basque language Armenac means Armenians“ -Baltasar de Echave Orio (17th Century) Quote: „House of Angegh (Angh/ Vulture) originates from a grandson of Hayk named Basqam“ Movses Khorenatsi (5th Century) -Ashtarak (town in Armenia) -Astarak (settlement in south of France) -Goris (city in Armenia) -Goris (settlement in Baskonia) -Deba (river in Armenia) -Deba (name of river in Baskonia)
-Shubria (Ancient name to provinces Sasun/Armenia) -Shuberoa (name to basque province in France) -Araks (famous river in Armenia) - Arakses (famous river in Baskonia) -Aran (name of terrain in Armenia) -Aran (widespread toponym in Baskonia) -Karkar (name of terrain in Armenia) -Karkar (famous toponym in Baskonia) In Basque In Armenian char (bad, evil) char (bad, evil) anti (from there) anti (from there) zati (separate) zat (separate) tegi (place) tegi (place) jelki (exit) jelk (exist) ete (if) ete (if) jaraunci (inherit) jarangel (inherit) muruncha (growl) merenchoc (growl) murtci (first) murts (first) orma (wall) orm (wall) tuil (weak) tuil (weak) lajno (size, width) lajn (wide)
 erorden (third) 
irurden (third) hastadun (weighty) hastatun (firm) urti (water-bearing) urti (water-bearing) hastatu (to prove) hastatel (to prove) gari (millet) gari (barley) harich (oak) harich (oak) hasi (to grow) hasnel (to grow) enchauz (nut) enkoiz (nut) herqa (furrow) herqel (to furrow) orots (calf) oroch (lamb) ardi (sheep) ardi (sheep) ajnts (goat) ajts (goat) hato (herd, flock) hot (herd, flock) matoin (sour milk) matsun (sour milk)

[@mehitablestorm8877]

Thanks for such a fantastic post. I supposedly have a small amount of Basque ancestry, but don't know much about them. Do they look at all like Armenians?

[@xrumi]

Aramjan may be Vahanjan published many things but don't forget Armenian is Indo-European language and Iberia was not name of Armenia... churchxela bliat...

[@sanikfal]

Good job!!! It is interesting that grammatically I could match this language with turkic languages while in the comments I read that it is near to armenian language as well ... really interesting

[@barbatvs8959]

Basques are Celts who adopted the language of my ancestors. This is why Basques look just like their non-Basque neighbours in northern Spain, and why Spanish has many similarities with Basque, it being Latin influenced by Basque (and others of course). It is not a Celtic language. My ancestors came from the Near East, although all people do, for the Garden of Eden and Mt. Ararat are there.

[@barbatvs8959]

Muy interesante. Soy íbero de la estirpe original. Los vascos son celtas que adoptaron la lengua de mis ancestros, y solos la han preservado gracias a Dios. Me fascina el origen de mis ancestros, y cómo llegaron a Iberia. Me parece que por el mar como los fenicios, pero antes que ellos. Los romanos, los griegos y los íberos somos los originales en el Mediterráneo europeo. Luego vinieron del norte los celtas, y más tarde los germánicos. Soy más español que el rey español. :-)

[@64imma]

You should definitely do a video on the Finnish language, and the Uralic Language family as a whole. I've been waiting for that video for quite a while actually. x(

[@GlamStacheessnostalgialounge]

I'm sure we are all waiting for that video.

[@emiliosgregoriou8943]

+64imma He will probably get to it, so keep your hopes up

[@davidtiganila27]

+64imma perkele

[@Konpaku_Hungary]

In Finland do everybody actually accept the finn-hungarian theory or not? If not, what do you think about your past? In Hungary lot of people belive that hungarian is more from turk and that area.

[@saatanal8388]

Joka suomalainen henkilö kysynyt saman asian

[@TrapShooter68]

I don't know why it took KZbin 4 years to recommend this. I'm fascinated about the movement of peoples across Europe and the world. Thanks for this great video!

[@MAbuRowais]

I hate extinction of languages as I do hate extinction of kind.

[@barbatvs8959]

So you wanna preserve ebonics? YO WHAT UP, G! YOU BE FRON'IN! MA NIGGUH FROM A NOTHER BROTHA IS ALL UP IN DUH GRILL YA HURRRRD!? FUH SHIZ WIZZ MUH NIGGUH NIGGUH NIGGUH NIGGUH NIGGUH NIGGUH and NIGGUH!!!¡

[@timothyswag3594]

You hate extinction of kind? Are you racist?

[@erentoraman2663]

@@barbatvs8959 id want to

[@barbatvs8959]

@@erentoraman2663 For a museum on clowns.

[@erentoraman2663]

@@barbatvs8959 every language(form) is precious to me, you're just being discriminating against these people for their own culture and way of speak

[@xabierzaldua1392]

I al from the basque country and here we call it EUSKERA

[@enekoabasolo2106]

Noskiiiiiiiii ni tolosakoa

[@MrFiver1111]

Euskera es en castellano Euskara es en vasco ¿No?

[@gontzalegiarte2258]

@@MrFiver1111 Da igual realmente

[@gontzalegiarte2258]

Gernikakoa naiz jaja!

[@harri3847]

@@MrFiver1111 no, euskera también se dice en algunas zonas de euskal herria.

[@Medytacjusz]

The part about Franco made me so angry. It's like ISIS destroying the centuries-old Syrian and world heritage in museums in Syria. Crime against civilisation. Languages are no different to material heritage here. And the mentions in the comments about nationalistic strategies to suppress minority languages in other countries... man, this takes me into a very anti-nationalistic mood. My country is also quite guilty of that.

[@pilarr7517]

Bartosz Szafarz It is not the truth, it is publicity from radicals. Think about the are many people in Spain that speak basque but few people in France. Do you really think that if the Spanish government had forbidden it, there would be so many people talking in Basque? Only it,s political propaganda. Between Basque and Catalan separatist politicians they are destroying Spain. They have 35 years of economic privileges and now they want more. they have us harassed with their demands of privileges. In Spain, Basque is one of the official languages. You go to Vascongadas and the signs are in Basque. In France, Basque is not an official lenguage but no Basque speaks ill of the French or complains despite the fact that almost nobody speaks Basque. Do you know most of Spanish surnames are from basque? They conqued the rest of Spain in "la Reconquista". The richest regions in Spain are Basque and Catalonian because their politians got many economics privileges at the expense of the rest of the regions. Actually it is not enough

[@aitorolabe9517]

Basque was began to be forbidden around 18th century, and was made by law, suppresing it from economic trades and institutional documents and meetings, so that the land people had to learn and speak spanish, with its asociated dificulties for little village people without schooling. So in an long and extensive way, they suppresed basque from most public spaces from century 18, to Francos dictature. Kids in school were forced to learn everything in sopanish, and who spoke basque had to wear a ring to show humiilliation, and was punished fisicaly, either with a punch with a ring in the head, or with the ruler in the top of the fingers. All this stuuf is registrated and people who lived during Franco dictatorship are still alive so dont listen to Pilar. She just says because since 1978, it cooficial, but harm has been made from 3 centuries by spanish Royalty goverments.

[@chesshooligan1282]

@Bar Dec Well, if it's any consolation to you, today it's impossible in Catalonia (a part of Spain) for a Spanish speaker to get an education in Spanish for his kids unless he sends them to a private school. Catalan is the only option. The only difference with the Franco days is that in the old days it was "repression" but today the Catalans have given the same practice (but with the languages reversed) the fancier name of "linguistic immersion."

[@anonimogarcia1976]

@@aitorolabe9517 I don't deny what you say. But the way you put it sounds biased to me. It is normal that when two languages, Basque and Spanish, share a physical space one takes over the other, as Latin did with pre_romanic languages. The laws requesting official documents to be written in Spanish were not intended to "destroy" Basque, but to ease inheritances, sales etc. amongst people in the area. Likewise for teaching, most of the educated people didn't speak Basque, it is logical that teaching was in Spanish. I guess something similar happened in France, it is difficult to keep a language when you are "surrounded" by another more "powerful" (though less interesting) I am not saying that for Basque only speakers it was easy to adapt to it but only that it was natural ( as it is for you and me to write now to each other in English instead of Spanish) I really dislike the idea of "oppression" when for me languages evolve by natural selection and that's it. Basque is world's heritage, has to be cared for and it is miraculous that it has survived in Spain. We could think a little bit more on what was different in Spain/Castilla/Navarra that allowed a pre Indo-European language to survive against all odds instead of blaming them for not being spoken more widely. Sin actitud lo digo, de veras

[@sailazineb9192]

@@pilarr7517 why most of surnames are from basque and can you give me exampels because i am actualy doing a research on this ?

[@egmusic1925]

The sentence structure is so unique. I like to think of it as a play. In Basque, you first place the individuals/locations involved in the sentence, and then the verbs in order of activity.

[@omomo202]

That’s actually a reallly good tip!

[@pjmoseley243]

some more interesting observations: Earlier today I watched a youtube video on the origins of the very first settlers in the Island of Ireland, bronze age DNA found in a Cave in Ireland links the first settlers there to the Basque DNA. Facial features of modern day people in Ireland are very similar to Basque faces. One other interesting observation is Basque traditions, one style of dancing strongly resembles traditional Irish dances. One interesting observation links one Basque dance and dress to English Morris dancing, which may have come from the county of Cornwall, Morris dancing origins are unknown but Cornwall was a Celtic region of England, but England has many Celtic regions currently. Just thought you may be interested in looking into it!

[@escaramujo]

On the faces you just flipped a bit, (or there are a lot of round faced, thin bonned, black eyes pointing upwards, strong eyebrows around ireland lately) but on the cultural aspects that's true. Basque dances, singings, etc... and all northern iberian, and probably all atlantic european cost, are very similar.

[@aryyancarman705]

well celtic people were in the spain area before ireland

[@Elster.Chapman]

You know, Duolingo has started a language revival program, the already have Hawaiian and Navajo, why not add Basque? I know saying it here probably won't do anything, but anyone who uses Duolingo and sees this comment should suggest the idea to the Duolingo team

[@hodeiertz2155]

I already did it myself, I am a Basque teacher, who suggested them to create the course Euskara/English and they never replied...And I know of many others who also contacted them for this and the same..Apparently there is no enough interest in our language...

[@yamitanomura]

@@hodeiertz2155 They add Basque to the Duolingo but the software crashes immediately with the subjuntiboa eta baldintzak... So they remove it.

[@hodeiertz2155]

@@yamitanomura 😂🤣 ziur baietz! I can see the point...

[@evgeniyagutnik6741]

I've just come back from my holidays in Euskadi, I fell in love with this country. Basque people are doing really great job in preserving their unique language and culture, they must be proud of it. Now I'm curious in learning more about its origins and your video is the most informative I've found so far.

[@alexrodriguez4643]

Watching this again after passing one million subscribers puts a smile on my face. Love your videos.

[@elianamckee]

This is a hard language to learn! Completely different from anything! Your videos are excellent, Paul!

[@Langfocus]

+eliana vasconcelos Thank you! Yes, Basque is really quite different from any of the languages I've studied.

[@ainhoagarrido3965]

eliana vasconcelos Yep, I'm basque and it's difficult to learn, but once you get used to it, it's easier!

[@matthewhartley4080]

Langfocus. dont you know japanese? dont you see the similarities?

[@elianamckee]

No I do not know Japanese. ! So Basque is similar to Japanese in their structure?

[@matthewhartley4080]

eliana vasconcelos i dont know japanese but from these examples given it looks almost exactly the same as korean sentence structure. i think i have seen langfocus do japanese but never korean videos before and other comenter made some good few word parallel between the japanese and basque languages, this is why i ask.

[@bettydoughtery3920]

The Basque language is unique, and needs to be valued as such

[@LetsGoGetThem]

The French contempt for their non-French languages within their territory continues to disgust everyone.

[@clarencemerritt5003]

Of all of the big European Nations, the French have the most nastiest attitude when it comes to minority languages! it's quite appalling!

[@barbatvs8959]

See Sebastien Chabal, rugby Frenchman, saying to a reporter who asked a question in English: "This is France... we speak French." Contempt for English is fine with me.

[@clarencemerritt5003]

@@barbatvs8959 what personally disturbs me in sports, you don't see young ethnic Frenchman playing in it. it's mostly Africans with a few Arabs and probably a single Frenchman.

[@austinhenning2844]

Everyone gives America BS for supposedly being intolerant, when they have the very white, very monocultural country of France.

[@arbanu.comics]

Italy has the worst politics about the regional languages...

[@nikoniko3271]

I'm not a Basque. I'm albanian. Respect for this ancient and unique language. Respect all the unique peoples who have been able to preserve their language and culture during this mess of history.

[@Amaiatximeleta]

Thank you so much

[@sarribel]

Faleminderit/mila esker

[@curly_wyn]

Çfarë?!

[@MacGyver399]

Eskerrik asko Paul! I'm basque and the video is great. Just a appreciation; the real effort of protect the euskara has been made by basque social associations and also basque governments (3 provinces). Not by spanish government and also not by navarre government (now Navarre government has changed and is also pro euskera). Just that. But as i said, the video is great! Update (2018/06/27): I forgot to mention North Basque Country. It is not even considered as official language by the French government, living it without any protection. Thanks there are many people (mainly volunteers) in the 7 provinces working for euskara.

[@zorion7031]

MotorLover hahh oso iringaria zira

[@sofifinunez2337]

I have basque heritage, and I've always wondered what exactly my last name means. Would one of you Basque people mind translating Eguiguren for me? :D My grandparents emigrated from Basque Country to Ecuador then my parents from Ecuador to Canada, and I live in Bosnia now, so the translation got lost somewhere along the way.

[@raulyaguesantiago8037]

It means literally "border of the hillside"

[@pascualrodriguez711]

MotorLover. Show me the way to fluency

[@joshypoopyhead]

MotorLover nigga

[@tropicana802]

The sentence structure is exactly the same as Korean which is another language isolate. Very interesting.

[@umutcansaliheryilmaz4901]

It is also very similar to Turkish, an Ural - Altaic (Central Asian roots/grammar ) language.

[@DoctorDeath147]

Japanese, Persian, Hindi, Urdu, and Latin also have the same word order so it's not rare. In fact, it's the most commonly used word order in the world.

[@rinkakiotsokume7748]

@@umutcansaliheryilmaz4901 there's a theory that sais maybe basque and turkish could be related (there are 3 theorys about basque origin, btw, but i never remember the other 2)

[@raleo7466]

Ngl being a Basque speaker has made it easy to understand Japanese grammar and particles as they are like the same but instead of using (ra) at the end you use (ni に) and things like that

[@osasunaitor]

Some years ago there was a wild hypothesis called the _Dene-Caucasian Language Family_ that claimed that Sino-Tibetan, Yeniseian, Burushaski and North Caucasian language families in Asia; Na-Dené in North America; and Vasconic in Europe are all related. Other linguists also included Korean, Sumerian and a few others. It's currently believed to be wrong, but it's still interesting to think that a common ancient language of humanity could have existed and these sparse languages would be the only remnants

[@МаринПетров-ш1л]

I am a Bulgarian English teacher. I wish to contribute with subtitles in my language. I will be able to do that from March next year. First I need to finish my master degree in English Philology. Wish me luck!

[@Salomious]

Best of luck!

[@stefan2serb]

Nadam se da si dobro prošla! Srećan božić!

[@PikaPika-Tassie]

Марин Петров whatever

[@TaigiTWeseFormosanDiplomat]

OK

[@XxpauldadudexX]

Good luck dude. I hope you finished your degree. :)

[@stevenshanab7318]

I'm watching this in the beginning of 2022 and I've always loved your channel! Learning about other languages always fascinated me and you're really one of the best language channels out there. Also you were happy to be celebrating 50,000 subscribers and now you've got 1.29 million!!!

[@sanderson9515]

There is a sizeable Basque community in the U.S. state of Idaho -- descendants of Basque sheepherders who emigrated about a century ago.

[@marcmarc8524]

S Anderson. In California and Nevada as well.

[@leobastayar2382]

And how do they act?

[@Mobutusese]

@decembrist yes, good for me to poop on...

[@melindamanthey2757]

@decembrist I grew up in Winnemucca Nevada in the 50s. Basque, lots and lots of Basque folk. Wonderful people, great language, music and food.

[@barbatvs8959]

I got out of the US so I won't get nuked there. The US is the biggest nuclear target. Even many of its allies resent it.

[@cactojuice]

Basque - the ultimate polyglot challenge

[@TabaFN]

I'm from the basque country and I have been speaking basque since I was 4 and im 16 now and I still dont know the verbs in basque

[@batukhan1245]

@@TabaFN Is it really that hard?

[@jonttr]

@@batukhan1245 not really, in some areas of the basque country, specially in big cities, many people use it in school but not in the rest of their lives, thats why that can happen. But native speakers who really use it day by day, don't have any problem with it. It is true that the verbs can seem hard. But if you have spoken the languaje since childhood you shouldn't have any problem. I live in spanish, I think in spanish, but I have studied in basque all my life and I don't have any problem with it, it is just the effort you put on speaking correctly. On the other hand is is true that if you try to learn basque at a grown age it is really hard because it is so different from the other languages. Sorry for my bad english hahahaha

[@ilse_hh]

@Давид Медић The conjugations of the verbs are really really difficult you have specific tests in high school just so you can conjugate verbs and even so it’s still hard, a complete challenge to non native speakers.

[@kaya.turner2525]

@@TabaFN I thought I was the only one

[@inglesconrichard]

That's fascinating, thanks!

[@anikohkadze7685]

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[@archiedemir8458]

They are descendants of Western Huns. They are turanian nation such as magyars ,Turks etc.In fact Turk is kinda surname of all of them that's why byzantinne called hungary is a western tourkia.

[@tximeleta35]

@@archiedemir8458 ????? Totally not!

[@archiedemir8458]

@@tximeleta35 It's your ignorance. Totally right.

[@JarharaJaiArik]

I clicked on this video after watching a basque movie on Netflix. After hearing about the ban of the language, it makes me really happy that a movie completely in this interesting language exists and that I watched it with the original basque audio and english subtitles

[@Alejojojo6]

"Lack of tempting resources that prevented invasion..." hehehe Then, it was discovered that we have one of the most pure Iron ores in all of Europe haha and that was the main force for the industrialization of the area in the 19th and 20th centuries. Happy they didnt find out before ^^, maybe we wouldnt have basques nowadays.

[@ZOLIZAR1]

I'm from Central Asia, when I did my genetic ancestry testing I found out that I have Basque ancestry in my bloodline.

[@selladoscontorazon9763]

Do they detect Basque gens? Seriously? I have to make it myself, I know since the XII century on my father's side all have been Basque, but on my mum's they have been mixed up, I never thought they could make any distinction on the Basque gens...

[@verminsa98]

Really zolizar? where are you from?

[@rexo10able]

Are you Rh negative, perhaps?

[@mehitablestorm8877]

@@selladoscontorazon9763 Yes, I did Ancestry and my expected Scottish & English showed up....but so did Basque, which completely surprised me. It's a small amount, a few percent, but it's a wonderful mystery. Very glad to be connected to these ancient people.

[@derindeniz8341]

@@mehitablestorm8877 may be, this information can solve the mystery, *Edward A. Freeman (History of Europe ) “When the Aryans first came into Europe, they found men living there who were neither Aryan non Semitic and whom, as they pushed on step by step they destroyed or drove into corners. İn same few parts of Europe there still are some remains of these old non-Aryan races. These are the Hungarians and the Turks, both of whom made their way into Europe in times of which the history is well known.” * Hodder W. Westropp, Handbook of Archaeology, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, 1867 "In our view the etruscans appear to be an original Turanian race, wich formed the underlying stratum of population over the whole world and which cropped up, like Basques in Spain, in that part of Italy called Etruria" *James Ferguson , Rude Stone Monuments In All Countries …as we have had occasion to point out above, the dolmen-buildiers of Europe certainly were not Aryan... from shorty before the christian era, till the countries in which they are found became entirely and essentially christian, the use of these monuments seem to have been continual, whenever a dolmen-building race or in other words, a race with any taint of Turanian blood in their veins James Ferguson ,1872 The ancestors of the Scots were Scythians

[@matterbob5x]

You are a good man, or at least you make interesting videos that make me learn. Either way I appreciate you good sir!

[@Langfocus]

Thank you! I'm happy to hear that!

[@Langfocus]

And I appreciate you too! :)

[@lrm3383]

Very good job. Congratulations. I'm a Brazilian physician who loves foreign languages and I must say your videos are great. I hope you have received the recognition you deserve, back home.

[@Langfocus]

Thank you! I'm glad you like my videos. But the work you do is much more important.

[@enekocuesta]

As a basque I have to thank you.The spread of information of the basque language (as well as culture...) helps us to get more speakers and improve the situation of the language. Nowadays the percentage of speakers has gone up, i think 48% of basques are capable of speaking basque (as well as another language such as spanish or french).But we have to work harder. Eskerrik asko eta ondo izan :) "Thanks and have a nice day" PD:Zorionak 50000 baino harpidetzaile gehiago lortzeagatik!! "Congratulations for getting more than 50000 subscribers"

[@annesantiago5517]

Zurekin adoz, gainera dio Espainian laguntzak daudela Euskarak berpirtzeko. Baina nik lagunak dauzkat Andalusian eta ezagutzean galdetu zidaten ea zergatik euskaraz mitzatzen dugun, Espainian gaude-eta. Eta ez dira haiek bakarrik, Espainako gende asko baizik

[@wii3willRule]

+enekocuesta Does "eskerrik" translate to thanks? Because if that's the case, then Basque seems to share a bit of vocabulary with Arabic; "ana ishkarak" (انا اشكرك), translates to "I thank you".

[@annesantiago5517]

+Elias Xian Sy asko in basque means a lot

[@ikerberasategui3047]

+Elias Xian Sy "asco" means disgust, dirty in Spanish is sucio hahaha

[@ikerberasategui3047]

+enekocuesta Nire aitona-amonek euskara dakitenean, baina inoiz ez dute irakatsi zidan :/

[@idoiavalverde5097]

Hello! It is amazing to see that people show devotion to our culture and language. You have done a great job with this video, congratulations!! Thank you very much, eskerrik asko!

[@hussainpainter52]

idoia valverde Ur culture is very unique, I hope the future generations can see the basque culture and language

[@mechtheist]

I guess he felt like he had to basque in his 50,000 subscriber glory.

[@Langfocus]

+mechtheist lol

[@mechtheist]

+Langfocus It's a good video, I didn't think you'd even see after 2400+ comments. Well made, informative, with an easy-going style. And I'm a sarcastic ahole who can't pass up a good lame pun. Basque has always fascinated me but I haven't come across much info, saw this and had to take a look, I'm glad I did.

[@osmondthewicked2013]

Actually, the link I posted will tell you how it happened. It's not a mystery anymore- he's an anthropologist and so am I. (also a historian, I am. So I can confirm his theory.) Basques are merely Celtic peoples (on the paternal side). That somehow lost their Celtic tongue. Meanwhile, the surviving Vasconic languages (Iberian and Aquitanian) were destroyed/extinct by 1st/2nd AD by the Romans during forced Romanization. The Celtic saw the Iberian men as savages and had to have an army of men (polygamy) kill the Iberian men and take their women, out of a noble venture. (Greek and Phoenician writers observed Iberians from a distance, practicing cannibalism and making war with each other and infanticide. So a mass group of Celtic warriors decided to take advantage of the savage situation, and repopulate the peninsula.)

[@osmondthewicked2013]

Meanwhile; during this indigenous and Celtic admixture. It created or contributed a lot to the ethnic group known as Celtiberians. (understand now? lol) The Basques mainly beat all the odds. Because of isolation in the Navarrese mountains and homogeneity. (distant cousins breeding with distant cousins.) hahahaha

[@epiedra4911]

That is just a weird hypotesis LOL

Congratulations!! I am thirth generation, My second last name is Ureta from Bilbao! I love this Language, thank you for teaching this! All my support from 🇨🇱. And obviosly I will follow you

[@Aboleo80]

This requires the "I'm not saying it was aliens but it was the aliens" meme

[@faramund9865]

Well uhm, indo-european language somehow crushed most of the other native languages. And Basque somehow survived. Ye mb aliens m8

[@ferminismo]

im basque and im proud of it!

[@unaizubikarai3344]

+fer fossoway EUSKALDUNA NAIZ ETA HARRO NAGO !

[@alcyonecrucis]

+fer fossoway keep learning basque, i might come visit and need to learn it sometimes ;)

[@OMA2k]

+Rodrigusificacionn No need to be a jerk about fer's comment

[@bikerboy3k]

why

[@Paguo]

+fer fossoway I'm portuguese and I have great empathy towards basque. Agurrak!

[@asier4466]

I'm basque and I've speak euskera (the basque language) since I started to speak!! I'm very proud of it!! Fortunately, the number of basque speakers is growing considerably!! Hope one day will be become again the mother language of all basque people!!!

[@guesswho5790]

Claro que sí!! Me encanta vuestra cultura. Los únicos honrados por tradición en España lol

[@nunciosidereo4070]

Let people speak what ever they want instead of telling people what how to speak. It s better to improve the conditions of someone than they speak the language you want. Euskera is gaining more and more speakers tho.

[@PedroGarcia-yn3im]

@@guesswho5790 No hace falta que para alabar lo vasco nos insultes a los demás. Porque por tradición no se es honrado, ni en España ni en ningún sitio, se es por educación y convicción.

[@sylviaciarsolo5985]

Seven out of my eight last names are Basque. I remembered that my grandmother used to talk about many studies performed regarding our background, and that the Basque people came from so ancient times for experts to speculate the possibility of being the language spoken by Adam and Eve in paradise, because of the peculiarity of being the only language in the world in which bad words don't exist. How about that?

[@jeenjeanjeen]

The basque sentence structure is strangely similar to Korean.

[@johnidchannel6877]

The pseudo-linguists are coming.

[@muratguler6592]

@@johnidchannel6877 Just because someone said it looks similar doesn't mean that they meant to say something scientific. To me the language also looks very familiar to Turkish structure. What is wrong with that?

[@johnidchannel6877]

@@muratguler6592 You have clearly misinterpreted what I wrote.

[@eljanrimsa5843]

To me as a German speaker the way the verbs are used looks "the wrong way round". I think I've heard it explained that in Basque passive mode is normal while in Indo-European languages active mode is normal. What things do you see as similar? The agglutinations? The word order?

[@muratguler6592]

​@@eljanrimsa5843 I visited Bilbao, a Basque city, last year for a week. I got a change for quite a long to observe the language. That is why my observations are not so superficial I must say. I'm not a linguist of any type, just a very big fan of languages but let me try to explain them. The word order, the way the vowels and the consonants are put together. The rule of spelling out while pronouncing the words. and of course agglutinations. The reason why people think that it looks/sounds the same as Korean or Japanese is also because of that reason. I find myself very often thinking that my Japanese online game characters started to talk in Turkish because it sounds soo similar sometimes. :D I'm not sure if they have the same rule of "ulama" as we call it but I feel like they do it too. Strangely, the French language is very much dependent on that rule as well. I think they call it "les mots du quotidien." I'm saying this because the spelling-out of words sound so similar to Turkish.

[@spaizemunkie4397]

Wow, I'm late to the party! Interesting video. I don't think there's any chance of the Basque language dying in France. We have Basque and French road signs for example. The kiddos learn Basque at school. The French Basque are very proud to be Basque and they continue to pass this important culture on to their mini-Basque people! 😀

[@hegoiurretabizkaia1339]

Hope that keeps for long🤞🏻

[@Agoateeman]

I'm so glad to be reading this. It's great that the kids are learning this in school.

[@badpiggies988]

Glad to hear it, because I’ve heard that unlike Spain the French government still hasn’t done anything for so many of that country’s minority languages and dialects. Good thing they’re learning it in school

[@slehar]

This is SO interesting! Thank you for giving examples and breaking them up in parts. I always wanted to get a taste of Basque!

[@Ulriquinho]

France has a long way to go before embracing regional languages and dialects again, hopefully it will before it is too late. I always think about how patois Norman died a little more each generation in my own family. Grandparents could speak it but didn’t. My dad could understand it in his youth (but probably can’t anymore) because his grandparents spoke it, and definitely couldn’t speak it. I can neither speak it nor understand it.

[@jamesdavidson4372]

Very similar language arrangement to korean or japaneses. Umea Karlean erori da 애.가 길.에 넘어졌. 다. child.the street.at fall is Gisonak Umeari iburua eman dio 남자.가 애.에게 책.을 주었. 다. man.the. child.to book.the give has Emakumeak gisona ikusi du 여자.가 남자.를 보았다 woman.the man.the seen has As a korean, I know that most of korean can learn speak japanese almost fluently in 1 or 2 years of study due to many similar words, and sentence structures. Korean alphabets actually supercedes that of Japanese, and bit more difficult for japanese to master korean. Korean or Japaneses can probably learn basque with ease as it seems it just requires simple replacement with basques word in sentence. Maybe Basque originated from Central Eurasia as far eastern asians had. Best of luck with Basque people and keep on rocking with Basque heritage.

[@dnr7560]

James Davidson this was very smart! I didn't know how Korean was broken down. The fact that Verbs and Nouns are all over the place makes me crazy though! I was hoping Korean was the easiest to learn because it at least had an alphabet. But even to know the letters and the sounds--mixing everything up would be confusing all the time. T-shirt Girl boy class gives. All that to say the girl have the boy the t-shirt in class.--#ImExhausted. it's like "Thought Scrabble"

[@heyokaempath5802]

It is so in many Native American langauges as well. I do see that connection

[@andoniarangurenubierna5660]

If only the arrangement was the hardest part xD You haven't seen the non-ending verbs.

[@ChorSuKong]

more to those like tibetan perhaps - by word order and ergative/absolutive cases in japanese you say "this man" but in tibetan its "man this"

[@erichlf]

Word order isn't very significant. Meaning a sentence can be reordered and still have essentially the same meaning.

[@joelmaestas5111]

I've only studied Japanese and Arabic, more Japanese than Arabic, but the example sentences you showed of Basque reminded me of both of them. I wanna learn Basque now

[@jeb284]

‘This episode should be called “we don’t know”😂😂😂

[@yamitanomura]

Maybe... I don't know

[@jaredlash5002]

I love it when I come across videos celebrating achievements like reaching 50,000 subscribers. And, at this time, I see that Paul has 1.32 MILLION subscribers. :) Great content deserves recognition.

[@BlackRedMoon92]

Wow!! I love this video! I'm from Gasteiz, which is the capital of Basque Country and I am now living in Pamplona. It is cool that you talk about a language so beautiful and so little known. Eskerrik asko!!! :D

[@neptuneconsus4992]

Ahisa Perez yes, yes, very Well fandango

[@californiaryguyg387]

My last name is Basque not Spanish and it was beautiful to hear the language of my ancestors, even though I was born in Mexico.

[@sadvenom7826]

Enrique Pascual basque isn't spanish, the culture and language of both are completely different.

[@LyOi]

@Enrique Pascual I think he means the language, not the nationality or something like that. By the way, not all the basques are spanish, I'm sorry, I am myself from the french side and in the basque culture, being basque (Euskaldun) means Euskara duena, the one who has/speaks the basque language. You can be basque even if you are from India, Congo, Cuba, Canada, Austria or Lituania

[@xabialberdidonzel9362]

@Enrique Pascual Estas bastante equivocado. Los apellidos vascos no tienen nada que ver con los españoles ni con España. España ni siquiera existía cuando los apellidos vascos fueron creados. Los apellidos no pertenecen a territorios, sino a culturas e idiomas, y nuestro idioma es el Euskera y nustra cultura la vasca. No digas chorradas de que la cultura vasca y española son más o menos igual, porque no es cierto. Y además, como dice mi vecino/a del Iparralde, Lydiedo, se puede ser vasco y no pertenecer a territorio español.

[@xabialberdidonzel9362]

@Enrique Pascualsimpre han sido España dices jajajja. Lo que hoy es España tiene 5 siglos, antes de eso eran varios reinos, y antes de esto, a parte de otras conquistas que ha sufrido el territorio, existian diversas culturas en la peninsula Iberica. De verdad crees que estas culturas han pertenecido toda su historia a España? Sigue auto engañandote.

[@honestguy7764]

Xabi, Enrique tiene su punto. estamos tan mezclados e intoxicados con pamplinas nacionalistas, que no queremos ver más allá. al otro dia, en las cuevas de Sare, la música de fondo cuándo veías a los maniquíes prehistóricos, era de txalabarta! sólo les falto poner chapela a los muñecos y la ikurriña ( bandera que Sabino se sacó de la manga) mientras encendían con el pedernal el fuego en la cueva.... Si bien es cierto que los vascos, tenemos mucho propio y especial, nos hemos dejado engatusar por el espíritu de nosotros somos mejores y distintos, empezando con las invenciones del santoral de Sabino y acabando con delirios xenófobos-racistas de Arzalluz e Ibarretxe (tema rh, te acuerdasel tostón que dieron? ) Yo dejé eso atrás hace tiempo. y cada vez me siento más orgulos de lo bueno que aportamos a España los vascos, y de como me siento mejor así, como ejemplo para otras zonas del estado, pero siempre orgulloso de lo gallego, andaluz, catalan y porqué no, murciano. Madrileño no menciono porque esos si están mezclados. Entiendes por dónde voy? un abrazo!

[@christophedebassompierre5568]

Interesting comparisons could be made with the structure of languages such as Korean and Japanese. Definitely worth a study.

[@kennethreilly1693]

Also similar to Ainu and Inuit (Ainu-Itak and Inuktitut). The chances of multiple language isolates found in bays / ports / islands around the world all accidentally developing these features simultaneously are slim to none, but the fact that they're all located near water gives a pretty strong argument for a very very old common ancestor.

[@imsorryyoutube6774]

Exactly! They seem to have a lot in common for being widely considered unrelated languages.

[@ChristianBradley-g1j]

@@kennethreilly1693 maybe 10,000 thousand years ago old. But "who knows"

[@plantsanimateddavidinventa871]

Yeah

[@plantsanimateddavidinventa871]

I guess

[@ninolaliashvili6945]

Hi from old Iberia (Georgia). The video was quiote interesting for me as a Georgian. Our languages don't look like each other, which i'm not surprised. If this theory about our common roots is true, we seppareted thousands of years ago, which caused much differencies between us. The thing that confuses me is your poliphonic songs and voicies, which reminds me the Georgian ones a lot. Our voice is our heritage which we are proud of. And when I hear your songs somewhy it feels me as proud as hearing Georgian ones. I don't personally know Basque people but You guys have my respect ❤

[@erikrom11]

I speak basque, I'm from Biscay and it's amazing to see this vídeos about my language knowing that it was (and still is) in the edge of extintion. It's a wonderful language, and very hard at the same time, but I invite you all to learn it.

[@TheZenytram]

For all this time that it has survived i think Basque has always being in the edge of extinction hehe.

[@hanleylopezescano5977]

How can I start?

[@erikrom11]

@erik_cucumber_ Yeah, yours is nice too😂

[@erikrom11]

@@TheZenytram basically

[@iamtheballerr]

I am from Turkey and I really want to learn that language...(do you recognise where my pfp from)

[@xh7385]

I've been to the Basque area, Spain this year, around the region of Bilbao and coastal zone, it was amazing because everything is in Basque/Gascoigne which I can't even have a clue take a guess. And my landlady really took a while to explain to me the things like Gaztelu Gatxe and basic pronunciations.

[@jennyproost2282]

The children speak this at home, so it is very good that the started at school in Basque.

[@reptile_loki]

i am half romanian half basque so i am very happy both languages are getting more recognition lately, also good analysis on both, your videous are great.

[@anaibarangan4908]

Basque may be a previous version of your Romanian language. .

[@katholischetheologiegeschi1319]

​@@anaibarangan4908 dacian has nothing to do with basque-language. Is Balkan not iberia