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useless-catalanfacts · 7 months

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Sweden saying they'll vote against allowing the use of Catalan, Basque and Galician in the European Union Parliament because "there's lots of minority languages and we can't allow them all" is so funny because CATALAN HAS MORE SPEAKERS THAN SWEDISH

Catalan is the 13th most spoken language in the EU. It has more than 10 million speakers, which means it has more speakers than other languages that are already official EU languages like Maltese (530,000), Estonian (1.2 million), Latvian (1.5 million), Irish (1.6 million), Slovene (2.5 million), Lithuanian (3 million), Slovak (5 million), Finnish (5.8 million), Danish (6 million), Swedish (10 million), and Bulgarian (10 million).

Neither Galician (3 million) nor Basque (750,000) would still be the least spoken languages to be allowed in the EU representative bodies.

But even if any of them did, so what? Why do speakers of smaller languages deserve less rights than those of bigger languages? How are we supposed to feel represented by the EU Parliament when our representatives aren't even allowed to speak our language, but the dominant groups can speak theirs?

It all comes down to the hatred of language/cultural diversity and the belief that it's an inconvenience, that only the languages of independent countries have any kind of value while the rest should be killed off. After all, isn't that what Sweden has been trying to do to the indigenous Sami people for centuries?

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beautiful-basque-country · 2 months

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Co-official and non-official languages of the Spanish state.

I was, what? WTF is that little island of Basque language in Segovia??

And I was today years old when I learnt about gacería or briquero, a language spoken by ~500 people as a first language, and ~5000 passive speakers (they can understand it but can't speak it).

Gacería was born around the 12th-13th centuries among cattle merchants as a code language for their businesses, and though it follows the Spanish pronunciation and grammar, it has influences of literally everyone in the Iberian peninsula at that time: - Old Spanish - French - Arabic - Caló (Iberian Roma people's language) - Galician and Basque, due to Galician and Navarrese people leaving their homelands to repopulate the area after the Reconquista.

Some examples of Basque words in gacería: artón = arto = bread gazo = gaizto = bad motillón = mutil, motel = young man muy = mihi = tongue ura = ura = water urdaya = urdaia = pork, meat

#euskal herria #basque country #pays basque #pais vasco #euskadi #gacería #segovia #castile and leon #languages #euskera #euskara #basque #a-ma-zing #no idea until today so ignorant of me #maps #spain

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martysimone · 7 months

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Agent Provocateur | Foxie • basque + thong in black leavers lace + glossy PVC strapping | Fall Winter 2023-24

#agent provocateur #luxury lingerie #basque #lingerie

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mali-umkin · 6 days

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Some good news that should be the minimum, but hey this is France:

The Brevet des collèges (national exam taken at the end of middle school) will be available in Basque and Breton, though supporting documents will still be in French from what I gather. This was the status quo until last November when the Éducation Nationale attempted to forbid it. That this is not enshrined in law in 2024 and still largely depends on students' parents mobilisation and that of some députés is mind-boggling, but that is the norm for many minority languages in Europe.

#Minority languages #Basque #Breton #upthebaguette #france

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garternstocking · 4 months

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#lingerie #stockings #kneeling #basque

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artthatgivesmefeelings · 2 years

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Jusepe de Ribera (Spanish, 1591 - 1652) Saint Jerome and the Angel of Judgement, Detail, 1626

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fullcravings · 7 months

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4-Ingredient Basque Cheesecake

#4 ingredient #basque #cheesecake #food #dessert #cream cheese #flourless #gluten free #baking #recipe #kirbiecravings

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celebsinlingerie · 6 months

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Kate Mara

#kate mara #satin basque #basque

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mioritic · 6 months

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Four priests play pelota on the portico of the Church of St. Michael in Aginaga (Eibar)

Photo by Indalecio Ojanguren (Basque/Spanish, 1887–1972), 1954

gureGipuzkoa, via returntobasque

#euskaldunak #basque #país vasco #vascos #españa #spain #indalecio ojanguren #1954 #catholicism

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folkfashion · 10 months

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Basque dancers, from Spain, by Oinkari

#basque #spain #europe #western europe #folk clothing #traditional clothing #traditional fashion #cultural clothing

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beautiful-basque-country · 8 months

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Spain just asked to adopt Basque, Catalan and Galician as official languages of the EU

The Government seeks to include the other languages that are official in the State of Spain, apart from Spanish, in the language regime of the European Union.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jose Manuel Albares, has officially requested today [Aug. 17 2023] on behalf of the Spanish Government, the inclusion of Basque, Catalan and Galician in the language regime of the European Union.

The minister has asked to change Regulation 1, which regulates the EU's language system, so that "the other languages that have an official statute besides Spanish" are also official in the European Union.

"Spain speaks Spanish, but also Catalan, Basque and Galician, and it is our duty to guarantee spaces to represent, use and learn about these languages," said Pedro Sanchez, acting president of Spain.

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Let's not get our hopes high: the EU has to accept this request UNANIMOUSLY, so we gotta wait 🤞.

#euskal herria #basque country #pays basque #pais vasco #euskadi #Catalan #basque #euskera #euskara #languages #News #politics

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martysimone · 7 months

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