BOISE -- Like in the northern provinces of Spain, the Basque language is alive and well in Boise, and has been for some time. It's also connected to the curriculum at Boise State. Nere Lete has been ...

In “Karmele,” one of the Basque films at this year’s festival, the Basque language itself comes under threat. For centuries, rulers sought to stamp out cultural difference, Franco banning Basque from ...

BARCELONA, Spain — The discovery of five words inscribed on a 2,000-year-old bronze hand may help rewrite the history of the Basque language, one of Europe’s most mysterious tongues. Investigators in ...

BOISE, Idaho — The Basque Country, geographically, is located in northeastern Spain and southeastern France along the Bay of Biscay, but the cultural and familial ties stretch across oceans and ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Basque language instructor Errukine Olaziregi teaches a Euskara lesson at the Euskaltegi tent. Photo by Willa Friedman, Ralph Rinzler Folklife ...

Linguists have long thought that the Basque language, which derives from the mountainous region of northern Spain and southern France, was only some 500 years old. Now, the discovery of an ancient ...

ST. JEAN DE LUZ, France — The world is losing languages at an alarming rate, a United Nations agency reported Thursday, with thousands of tongues expected to disappear by the end of this century. Yet ...

THE Etruscans perhaps excepted, there is no race that has had a greater attraction for the ethnologist and the student of language than the Basque. Defended by the mountain-fastnesses of the Pyrenees, ...

The limited release Oct. 30 at New York’s Paris Theatre of Basque-language film “Loreak” (“Flowers”), Spain’s Foreign Language entry for the 88 th Academy Awards, lays down a milestone for the newly ...

BEFORE AN AUDIENCE of 500 people on the outskirts of Pamplona, Maialen Lujanbio, the reigning champion of bertsolaritza, the Basque oral tradition of improvised song, steps up to the microphone. She ...