Redes - Basque: The oldest living language in Europe (english subs)

[8Maik]

studying those languages can reveal a lot on the nature european men. for example i found out that basque has some words in common with other languages who are, in part, uncategorized. for example in albanian, pig is "derri", in basque is "txerri".

[HesseJamez]

Even the Basques themselve don't know where they came from....all neighbours have romanic languages like French, Spanish or Katalan. Basque isn't classified until now.

[t3hslowpoke]

Thanks for the ruining video with retarded spanish voiceover. Yeah, totally makes sense to put english subtitles for ENGLISH original voice as well as add SPANISH voiceover.

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@t3hslowpoke Yes, I re-edited the video by my own, adding these subtittles, because the spanish tv put the spanish voicecover, and you cant even understand the original voices. I don´t own anything about this video, I just put the subtittles.

Greetings, and thanks for your comment.

[t3hslowpoke]

@EuskalHerriaEH Eh, got it. Stupid TV of any country ruining good stuff with voiceovers is not a new thing.

[KnowlegeIsPower1210]

Basque is indeed very special to humanity. It's an ancient Lyran tongue that is more or less very similar to its origin. The Basque people are quite special and sacred in that respect to all of our human origins.

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@KnowlegeIsPower1210 Hello.

As you say, Euskara, Basque, is quite special for humanity; but I do not agree when you say that Basque has Lyran originin, because I do not know what language exacly is this one. Their origin is quite cufusing for those experts on languages, but it could have an african origin.

What it minds is the next one in my opinion; Basques have not their own country, and our abilities as a country are controled by spanish and french governments

One Love.

[GuyNamedSean]

I'm going to guess that this video was from Spain, considering the French hardly let anyone speak Euskara. That may also explain why it sounds closer to Spanish than any other language I know, despite being markably different.

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@GuyNamedSean I think that you do not know much about Basque Country. Not the spanish, neither the french people speak basque (Euskera), because this is a language from Euskal Herria, and not from spain or france. This documentary was produced by the spanish public television, but look, the white hair man is from Catalunya, and he also speaks the language from this country, and not just spanish.The interview was originaly made in english,and later translated (in voice) to spanish.

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@GuyNamedSean I think it has no much sense when you say that Euskera sounds closer to spanish than to any other language, because as it is said on this video, all those languages you know where created about 8 thousands years ago, while Euskera was created about 20 thousands years ago. And this is why Euskara does not sound close not to spanish neither to other languages, not at least those indoeropean languages, the actual european languages we know nowadays.

[debilazerner]

euskara and armenian languages are similar

[dilledilledilledille]

Que es el nombre del documentario? Los orígines de las especies? No puedo encontrarlo.. puedes darme un link para descargarlo?

[lithuanian14]

I think it is Lithuanian, because Lithuanian has very ancient language structure and not very changed till nowadays . Man scholars agree that it is Lithuanian

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@lithuanian14 Lithuanian, Armenian ???

Look people, I completly respect your languages, but why don´t you respect my language? Euskera is not Lithuanian, neither Armenian; Euskera is Euskera, and it is spoken in a very concret territory. Lithuanian and Euskera are two different languages, and they live quite far away from each other, about 2000 kilometres between each language.Euskera is the language from Euskal Herria, a country located between Spain and France.

Freedom for Basque Country!

[SonnyGoEt]

@EuskalHerriaEH Nobody has said that the Basque language (Euskera as you say) comes from any European language, so there is no reason to say that everybody has to respect your opinions because nobody has said something against you. I am also a Basque and what I can say is that nobody knows where it comes from, this is absolutely clear.

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@SonnyGoEt You said; "Euskera, as you say". I tell you this is not the name I use to name this language, but it is the original NAME of this laguage. Ok, I agree with you when you say that this language has no a certain origin, and that Euskera is not a Indo-European language. But I do not agree with you when you say that someone has said anything against me, because I have never said that. What I say is that some people says things against Euskera, and against Basque Country.

[SonnyGoEt]

@EuskalHerriaEH Sorry if I misunderstood your words.

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@SonnyGoEt Basque Country and against the human rigths of the people living there. The independence of the Basue Country is controled by the french and spanish govermnets, just because this govermnets has created laws against the freedom of the Basue Country, which is a right that should not be banned by the actual fascism with a look of false peace. That´s exactly what denouce, and how the history is modified by the powerful goverments ARMED WITH WEAPONS.

[zdenkajojo82]

@EuskalHerriaEH do you know any online resources to learn Euskera? Or any language schools?

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@zdenkajojo82 Hello. To say the truth, I think there are not many software to learn Euskera. Maybe you know about "Tell Me More English", it is a software for PC where you can learn english, and this software has other versions, Tell Me More German .... I think this company had also released Tell Me More Euskera, but I think it is not very easy to find it. I think there are also other softwares, but looks like this one is the most completed. About online softwares, I do not know much about them

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@zdenkajojo82 You could also find for some person who could give you lessons. I do not where do you live, but if you are European, I think you could find some basque student or worker who could give you basque lessons there where you live. There are many basque around europe, and some of them teaches Euskera. You also have some online basque dictionaries and translators, but these are usuful if you just want to know the meaning of a word, but not useful for learning.

[zdenkajojo82]

@EuskalHerriaEH I'm in Canada, and it'll be a while before I'll be able to make my way to Europe. lol, for now then it's just vocab building (which will be helpful regardless). Thanks for the tip about Tell Me More, i'll definitely look into that. And thank you for the reply :)

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@zdenkajojo82 Of course, you could always come to Euskal Herria, and here you would find many special schools to learn Euskera. That would be the best option to learn this language, so you could practice it after leaving the school, on bars or anywhere here.

If I find something, i will keep in contact with you.

Big greetings!

Ondo izan, gero arte!

[mmgoicochea]

@zdenkajojo82 why dont you try the 1000 words method? then expand it and then learn gramar and you will be just fine.

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@mmgoicochea @zdenkajojo82 What method is that about the 1000 words ?

[mmgoicochea]

@EuskalHerriaEH grab the 1000 most used words in any language you can find this anywhere (search it as "1000 most used words"). you can pretty much learn any language with it, yea its just the basics but you get a general idea of what the language sounds and you can understand a lot...

[debilazerner]

EUSKA =ARMENIAN

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@debilazerner Euskara = Armenian ???

I think you are confusing two completly different languages.

[TheSpecialister]

hombre, al fin algunos NOS aprecian, el leguaje mas viejo QUIZAS del mundo

[amenfay]

gora EuskalHerria !

[tirpitz19]

Speaking over the original language of the video is a horrible and nasty habit.

Use subtitles people !

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@tirpitz19 Yes, you are right. That is why I have created the subtitles for this video. I do not own the video, it is taken from a spanish tv channel, so I had to creat those english subtitles. The original voice is in english, but the spanish translation hides the original voice track, as you can hear.

Thank you.

[mmgoicochea]

@tirpitz19 NO.

[dilledilledilledille]

@tirpitz19 Welcome to spain

[Beowulfsonur]

@EuskalHerriaEH...Very interesting...Peace

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@Beowulfsonur Yes,but I think that the most interesting thing is not said on the video.We have our own language, wn culture,own traditions,own mitology,so we are our own country in Basque Country;there is just one problem. t is that spanish and french goverments DO NOT let us to deceide our future,they do not let us to DEMOCRATICALY vote for an independece,because they creat laws to force Basque Country to be part of theyr nations.Spain and France are oppressors who takes our Human Rights.

Tnx

[Broctus2010]

@EuskalHerriaEH libertad, eso es lo que hace falta, somos muchos los que apoyamos la madre patria en Chile y Argentina

[debilazerner]

@EuskalHerriaEH armenian and euskara similar words elki'(exit)-ARM.'elk'(exit) 'ete'(if)-ARM.'ete'(if) .'jaraunsi'(to inherit)-ARM 'jarangel'(to inherit) BS.'muruncha'(snarl)-ARM.'mere­nchots'(snarl) BS.'murtsa'(fist)-ARM.'murts'(­fist) BS.'orma'(wall)-ARM.'vorm'(wal­l) BS.'tegi'(place)-ARM.'tegh'(pl­ace) BS.'toil'(weak)-ARM.'tuil'(wea­k) .'laino'(size,breadth)-ARM.'la­in'(broad) .'astadun'(weighty)-ARM.'hasta­tun'(strong, steadfast) .'astatu'(to prove)-ARM.'hastatel'(to prove)

[debilazerner]

@EuskalHerriaEH armenian and basque similar place name

Ashtarak( in Armenia)-Astarak( south of France)

Goris ( in Armenia) - Goris (in Baskonia)

Deba (a river in north Armenia) - Deba (a name of a river in Baskonia)

Shubria (The ancient name to provinces Sasun) - Shuberoa (tha name to basque province in France)

Araks(a famous river in Armenia) - Arakses(a famous river in Baskonia) Karkar (the name of terrain in West Armenia) - Karkar (famous toponim in Baskonia)

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@debilazerner I think you are confused. Armenian is a indoeuropean language, but basque is not indoeuropean. May they have some similar words, but their origins is far diferent; armenian is indoeuropean, while basque is not.

[Lagallinaloca1]

A basque friend told me that it was impossible to insult in basque language. he told me that basque people always insult in spanish language because basque insults are very shabbies and sound homosexual. Could any basque clarify me this quetion? thank you very much.

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@Lagallinaloca1 Hello lagallinaloca. It is possible to insult in basque language too. I think that is a common thing on all languages. And in my opinion it does not sound as you say, but it sounds like an insult.

[Gartzens]

@Lagallinaloca1 that's false I'm basque and there are basque insults. But we use the spanish ones because we have a big influence of the spanish. On the other hand, we don't have much insults, I suppose we're more polite jaja.

[prossihalty]

@Lagallinaloca1 The reason why insults have dissapeared in basque is because the basque language is passed on from generation through generation within families, and as you can guess, you are not going to learn how to insult and curse from your dad our grandparents... hence you learn how to curse in castillian...

[RollinOnVWGTI]

umm... this is not the oldest language, Aramaic is older. and Sumerian is even older then Aramaic. The middle east is by far older then ANY other continent with its languages, religions, and pretty much anything... if u disagree then ur an idiot

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@RollinOnVWGTI Idiot? Well, i think you do not start well with me ... When did i told you idiot?

Read the fucking TITTLE of this video: the oldest language in Europe. Is middle east Europe? Then you are the idiot!

Fuck!

[RollinOnVWGTI]

@EuskalHerriaEH never called u an idiot bro. im hearing that everyone saying it the oldest language, im just trying to clarify that its not to the ones who dont know. chill man, no need for anger

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@RollinOnVWGTI If some person says here that basque language is the older language in the world, you can write a comment as an answer. But I have never told that, and i don´t read any comment here saying that basque language is the older language in the world. If you want to clarify something, you can creat your own video clarifying it; but if you write a comment here, try to do it about things said on this video. I don´t get anger, you started using words like "IDIOT"!

[RollinOnVWGTI]

@RollinOnVWGTI I wasn't calling you and idiot. I said if u (as in everyone watching this video) disagree with what I was saying would then be considered an idiot. I wasn't directing the insult to any specific person. chill the fuck out and stop acting hard because I can type and comment w/e the fuck I want. I previously stated that there was no need to argue over some stupid shit so chill the fuck out.

[Larsandrew]

@RollinOnVWGTI Aramaic around 3000 years old and Sumerian nearly 7000. If you paid attention at the video the dated Basque or euskera as a 20.000 year old language... if you disagree you suck at maths!

[RollinOnVWGTI]

@Larsandrew maths??? lol Sumerians were the first civilization ever and the Sumerian language is older then basque, and Aramaic is very similar to Sumerian.

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@RollinOnVWGTI Hello Rollin. On this video they talk about Indo-European languages, and also about Euskera. The learned man says how old this languages could be. But about the languages you are talking about, Sumerian and Aramaic, what language family those languages belong to? How old could you tell they are? Where they come from?

[RollinOnVWGTI]

@EuskalHerriaEH civilization started by Sumerian people. they spoke Sumerian and lived in Iraq. back then it was known as sumer, between the Tigris and euphrates rivers.

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@RollinOnVWGTI There is just one thing I think. All what you are talking about happened about seven thousand years ago. Maybe civilization started at that time, but there was countries and living human beings in the planet much before, as it is said on this video, therefore looks like some people located on the western europe spoke a language called Euskera about twenty thousands years ago. I think that´s older than Sumerian, even if they were not designated as a civilization.

Greetings.

[Larsandrew]

@RollinOnVWGTI You are such a pain in the ass. Do you know what civilization means? The language related in this video existed even before the concept of civilization was conceived. I totally agree the first civilization created and/or developed was Sumerian, but this is about languages dumbass, and even do, there are even older languages than this one. Arameic and sumerian were the first ones which were found testimonials of their existence, but Basque an other hundred of them are primitive,

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@Larsandrew I realy appreciate your comments, as long as it is nice to know different kinds of ideas, focussed to learn more. This way, I also think ithat the conversation will be better if we speek with clear words to express our ideas, so we can leave the other less relevant words. At this point I agree with you, because who knows what languages could exist before Aramaic or Sumarian, for example in Africa or America.

Greetings there,

One Love.

[RollinOnVWGTI]

@Larsandrew ur a fucking dumbass. go suck a fat cock

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@RollinOnVWGTI This is the last time I tell you this RollinOnVWGTI: if you just insult me or other people here, I will ban you and you will not be able to do any other comment here. You can arguement anything you want, but without using insults. This is the last time i tell you this!

[RollinOnVWGTI]

@EuskalHerriaEH lol i only insult the un-intelligent, especially when they argue about something that they are incorrect in. peace

[tirpitz19]

@Larsandrew Ha ,ha ,you are perfectly right. How can you know who was the first civilization? And what do we understand by ,,civilization,, ?!

[dictionaryzzz]

Some anthropologists and other scientists are saying that the basque language came from the neanderthals. Spain was one of the last strong holds of the neanderthal species. The most recent fossils come from gibraltar.

[benb023]

This is an ancient alien language.

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@benb023 I think you should show some respect to my language as the one I guess you show to your own language.

Looks like euskera and english languages were created by humans, so I don´t understand why you make a joke like that with our language ...

[benb023]

@EuskalHerriaEH Oh, that wasn't meant as a joke. I have mad respect for Basque, that's a crazy hard and old language.

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@benb023 Oh, yes! Every language is hard, specialy when you don´t know speaking it, heh, you know. But basque language could be little bit difficult, but it is quite easy if you learn it as your Mother Language, I mean, since you born, first language you learn; then it is not so hard, you know.

Respect, and One Love.

[3tangle3]

@benb023 totally opposite.................its the earliest languages coming into europe...from n africa migration pathways..probs berber origin

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@3tangle3 So you mean that indoeuropean languages like english or french are older than euskera? ... I would like to know where you find that information ...

[3tangle3]

@EuskalHerriaEH no mate.......I am in agreement with you!! DNA studies agree with you

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@3tangle3 Hum, i see that you mean that euskera is the first language coming into europe. But you say something about the origin of this language ... "bereber". Is it coming from africa?

Greetings and respect.

[3tangle3]

@EuskalHerriaEH please have a little look at the possible migration route of berbers in North Africa - morocco algeria etc......across mediterranean sea into Iberia/spain/basque etc

If you have science on your side my basque friend..............you will win the day ;p....i believe science is on your ground so you have high moral ground!

[TheDontancredo]

@3tangle3 JUst a simple question. Basques are in Europe around 18 000 years right somebody say here they came from north Africa, but what the hell in that times all the indoeuropean tribes came from africa and india, the question is, are you talking bullshit?

[3tangle3]

@TheDontancredo why bandy around the word bullshit..........I am not saying we are descended from the MODERN basques or their MODERN culture......I am saying there was an ice age refugia there from which DNA studies I have seen support western european ancestry links....do your own research.......the north african route was a separate route to the indian route..........MAN does not have to travel along one route!

[EuskalHerriaEH]

@TheDontancredo Hello Dontancredo. The thing is: All european languages come from the east of Europe, there where Asia "starts". But many time before those languages came, there was a speaking language in the western Europe, and it was the "Baske" language. I think you are not right when you say that Indo-European tribes came from africa, cos they came from the limit between Asia and Europe: There their name. Baske could came from africa, or it was on Europe since time ago.