In "Karmele," one of the Basque films at this year's festival, the Basque language itself comes under threat. For centuries, rulers sought to stamp out cultural difference, Franco banning Basque from ...

The discovery of five words inscribed on a 2,000-year-old bronze hand may help rewrite the history of the Basque language, one of Europe's most mysterious tongues. Investigators in northern Spain said ...

Linguists have long thought that the Basque language, which derives from the mountainous region of northern Spain and southern France, was only some 500 years old. Now, the discovery of an ancient ...

Spoken in small parts of northern Spain and France, Basque is one of the most interesting languages in the world because ...

BEFORE AN AUDIENCE of 500 people on the outskirts of Pamplona, Maialen Lujanbio, the reigning champion of bertsolaritza, the Basque oral tradition of improvised song, steps up to the microphone. She ...

A team of archaeologists with the Aranzadi Science Society has found a word inscribed on an ancient Basque bronze hand that resembles a modern Basque word. Their paper is published in the journal ...

Some U.S. cities have become practically synonymous with the ethnic and religious groups who have settled there, such as the proud Irish Americans of Boston’s “Southie” neighborhood (see also: every ...

EXCLUSIVE: Filmax has boarded sales on Basque-language genre movie All The Moons, the new feature from writer-director Igor Legarreta (When You No Longer Love Me). The Barcelona-based outfit is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this undated photo provided by Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi, a flat piece of bronze shaped like a human handis displayed in ...