In Basque, the name of the language is officially euskara (alongside various dialect forms).
In French, the language is normally called basque, though euskara has become common in recent times.

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Basque is geographically surrounded by Romance languagesbut is a language isolate unrelated to them, and indeed, to any other language in the world. It is the last remaining descendant

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The region where Basque is spoken has become smaller over centuries, especially at the northern, southern, and eastern borders. Nothing is known

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Basque is an ergative–absolutive language. The subject of an intransitive verb is in the absolutive case (which is unmarked), and the same case is used for the direct object of a

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Through contact with neighbouring peoples, Basque has adopted many words from Latin, Spanish, and Gascon, among other languages. There are a considerable number of Latin loans (sometimes obscured by being subject to Basque phonology and grammar

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Basque is written using the Latin script including ñ and sometimes ç and ü. Basque does not use Cc, Qq, Vv, Ww, Yy for native words, but the Basque alphabet (established by

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Vowels
The Basque language features five vowels: /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/ and /u/ (the same that are found in Spanish, Asturian and Aragonese). In the Zuberoan dialect, extra phonemes are featured:
• the

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