: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,
:12:01
and that isn't true.
:12:03
We have no alternative
but to grow.
:12:05
A lot of people
have learned Basque
:12:07
but it can't compete
with Spanish on the streets.
:12:11
The Basque language in particular...
:12:13
The obsession today for it
to become an absolute monopoly
:12:17
is, in my opinion, negative
and laden with reactionary effects.
:12:22
Basque is being identified
with violence, with nationalism.
:12:27
For me, language has got nothing
to do with politics.
:12:30
It's beyond that.
:12:32
In any case, it's poetry.
:12:35
It's part of my installation
in the world.
:12:40
The future of Basque in Navarre
:12:43
and in the Basque Country
is uncertain.
:12:47
I love the Basque language
rather than the Basque Country...
:12:50
We have the oldest language
in Europe.
:12:53
It would be heart-breaking
if we lost it.
:12:56
It's my homeland.
:12:58
If Germany had had
the Basque language,