The language of the Basque culture is Euskara. Euskara comes from the word "enautis" which means "to say." It is the last non-Indo-European language in Western Europe. This language is considered to be an isolated language, but it is spoken by more than 700,000 people. This language is a mixture of Latin and Romance language. Basque language is completely different from English language. The only word that is clod to the same is the word "bi" which means "two." All the other words are not much like English words at all. In English, we say "I" and in Euskara, they say "ni." Their words are spelt and said much differently than ours. There are seven territories that use this language and two territories that border the other territories that also use this language. The seven territories are Alava, Biscay, Guipuzeoa, Labourd, Lower Navarre, Navarre and Soule. The two surrounding territories are between Gascony and Lower Navarre, and between Bearn and Soule. These are the only few places that still continue to speak Euskara.
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http://www.kondaira.net/eng/Euskara.html, accessed July 22, 2013.
I think that this culture is very interesting. I did not think that their culture could be that different in terms of language. We are culturally diverse when it comes to language. Their language has different sounds and spelling than our culture. I'm surprised at how many people still speak this language. Since it is an isolated language, I thought that there would not be that many people who continued to use it. I think it is so weird how different their grammar and sentence structures are. For example when we say "they are" the Basque say "dira."
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