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4 Vocabulary

By contact with neighbouring peoples, Basque has borrowed words from Latin, Spanish, French, Gascon etc. Some studies claim that half of its words come from Latin, but phonetic evolution has made many of them appear nowadays as if they were native words, e.g. lore ("flower", from florem), gela ("room", from cellam).

5 Writing system

Basque is written using the Latin alphabet.

6 See also

• useful Basque phrases
• languages of France
• languages of Spain

7 External links

• Ethnologue report for Basque
• Basque Wikipedia
• A BRIEF GRAMMAR OF EUSKARA, THE BASQUE LANGUAGE Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, University of the Basque Country, Euskararako Errektoreordetza, Office of the Vice-Rector for the Basque Language

7.1 Grammar

• University of the Basque Country: A Brief Grammar of Euskara, the Basque Language
• Basque Verb Tables
• Larry Trask: A Linguistic Sketch of Basque
• Larry Trask: Some Important Basque Words (And a Bit of Culture)

7.2 Dictionaries

• Morris Student Plus: Basque - English - Basque dictionary (67,000 headwords + 120,000 expressions and idioms)
• Webster's Online Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition: Basque - English Dictionary

8 References

• HUALDE, José Ignacio & DE URBINA, Jon Ortiz (eds.): A Grammar of Basque. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2003. BooksEnthsiast.com.
• TRASK, R. Larry: History of Basque. New York/London: Routledge, 1996. BooksEnthsiast.com.

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