Kalaka ETB1

Basque television. The purpose of this video is to show how the Basque language sounds. I had some problems when uploading it, so the quality of the image is not good.

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Science & Technology

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• Kalaka
• ETB1
• basque
• language
• euskara

[kman543210]

Every time I hear Basque, and even Catalan in Spain, it sounds like a Spanish accent. I speak Spanish, so I know that they're not speaking Spanish, but it sounds like the same intonation and pronunciation of the vowels. I wonder what Basque sounded like 1,000 to 2,000 years ago before any influence of a Latin language, or even Celtic language since the Celts were in that region too at one time. Glad to see the language is alive and well still.

[ciceron000]

@gypsymarika "Laguna" means "friend" in Basque and "lake" in Spanish. And a funny one: "tori" (鳥) in Japanese and "txori" in Basque both mean "bird".

[TheBasqueLand]

@kman543210 thats because spanish is the evolution of latin spoken by basque people =)

[MorrisMerkx]

@HABRADASHR

the nostratic language family is only a theory.

[GlennDosXY]

It may have some links to the dene language spoken in northwestern Canada by the Dene First Nations peoples...there are some cognates in common, but little else. The Basques were known to be great sailors from early times, so some may have reached North America & settled there.

[HABRADASHR]

basque is a language isolate in the nostratic language family

[dotosul]

no entiendo ni mierda!

[ciceron000]

@gypsymarika Well, Euskara is one of the non-indoeuropean languages of Europe, along with the finno-ugric languages. However I don't think it's related to them. There have been some studies that have found similarities with the Iberian language (spoken in the Iberian peninsula until the Roman invasion ~2000 years ago, also non-indoeuropean), Celtic and even Latin. "Kalaka" is a false friend, in Euskera it means "to chat a lot". There are some more false friends: [see next post]