:10:28
Euskal HerrĂa,
you are moving forward,
:10:31
but, towards what?.
:10:34
The future will be rough
:10:37
but prosperous too.
:10:41
If only it has
the color of this landscape
:10:46
which is a reflection
:10:49
of our hope.
:10:54
In the Basque Autonomous
Community, or Euskadi,
:10:58
with 2 million inhabitants,
:11:01
42% know Basque
and 16% speak it.
:11:09
Historian-anthropologist
:11:13
Ethnographic researcher
:11:16
Writer-humanist, ethnographer.
:11:21
Ballad singer,
TV presenter, journalist
:11:26
Professor of Political Science,
writer.
:11:28
Threatened by ETA.
:11:31
The only living thing
from European pre-history
:11:34
is the Basque language.
:11:35
It doesn't belong
to the Indo-European group.
:11:38
It doesn't belong
to the Romance group,
:11:41
or the Germanic group
or the Celtic group.
:11:45
Our language is
a made-to-measure instrument
:11:48
for showing our sensitivity
and our thoughts.
:11:52
The non-Basque speaking world
:11:54
thinks that we have an insatiable
desire to impose it,
:11:59
that we want mono-lingualism
in Basque,