2005-08-21 04:00:00 PDT San Sebastian, Spain-- Anna Intxausti doesn't look like a Cro-Magnon, but she might sound like one. Intxausti is a Basque, and her language is the oldest and most enigmatic in ...
The Basque separatist group ETA is being blamed for a bombing that killed two policemen in the northern Spanish town of Sangüesa today. Basque nationalists often point to the group’s distinct language ...
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 ...
Before a banner reading “Ongi Etorri” — “welcome” in the Basque language — Grand Junction officials, along with Basques from across Colorado, and from California came together over the weekend to ...
Singing a long-forbidden song, a knot of youths surged into Pamplona’s Plaza Mayor one day last week and, with a lusty cheer, sent two homemade rockets sizzling into the sky. While police ...
BOISE, Idaho — With more than 300 pounds of chorizo sitting in her freezer and 5,000 portions of Basque-style paella prepared in advance, Tara McElhose-Eiguren says she’s finally running out of space ...
It’s Jaialdi! If you’re not sure what that means, then hang on to your red beret. Every five years, thousands of Basques and Basque Americans — and nearly as many non-Basques — descend on Boise to ...
During four decades of violence, the Basque separatist group ETA claimed to be fighting for the Basque people's right to self-determination. But the group ignored the fact that most Basques rejected ...
Rural traditions are central to Basque identity, and to their claim to being a nation, different from the rest of Spain. One such tradition took place Saturday in the Basque village of Azpeitia: the ...