Talk:Basque language

message: Has anyone ever tried to look for clues that could point to Basque being of Early Bronze-age European steppe (R1b-M269, WSH) origin?
:Hello. Wikipedia article talk pages are reserved for discussion of ways to improve the article, not for general conversation about their subject. Please see WP:NOTFORUM. Largoplazo (talk) 09:44, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Steppe 

message: An interesting discovery was made in January 2022, but only reported today, stating that the earliest inscription in Basque has been dated to the first century B.C., and speculates on potential connections to the Iberian language. https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-11-14/researchers-claim-to-have-found-earliest-document-written-in-basque-2100-years-ago.html https://www.diariodenavarra.es/noticias/navarra/2022/11/14/hallada-navarra-mano-irulegi-el-texto-antiguo-lengua-vasconica-siglo-i-c-548322-300.html Culloty82 (talk) 20:13, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Hm yes, it's an important find but I think, given we can't read most of it and only have a single word that admittedly looks a lot like a Basque word, it's a bit premature to call this a Basque text. The state we're at, for all we know it may be a Basque loanword in Iberian (think of how the word benedictus has made it into languages like Irish in the form of beannacht in the wake of Christianity. Akerbeltz (talk) 22:46, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hand of Irulegi - Earliest Basque inscription 

message: Can any linguist bet his head that the ancestor of Basque language was present in Western Europe before Late Neolithic? "Late Neolithic and later are IE times" is not a linguistic arguement. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.249.44.2 (talk) 06:53, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Is this related to anything that is currently mentioned in the article or that needs to be added to it? Otherwise, please see WP:NOTFORUM. –Austronesier (talk) 20:27, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neolithic 

message: The "Euskara iparraldean" video in the "Demographics" section loses sound about a minute in. It might be a poor recording or it might be fixable, but that's beyond my humble skill. Anyone who knows anything about these sort of things should take a look at it. Gamle Kvitrafn (talk) 18:47, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It plays fine for me all the way through, maybe you were on a slow connection and had a buffering issue? Akerbeltz (talk) 11:16, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems ok to me. In the last minute the sound does drop down somewhat and sounds like it's off in the distance compared to the first part of the tape - but still totally audible. It may be that if the sound on the device you're using is not strong that bit may be problematic. DeCausa (talk) 11:45, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Video is messed up 

message: I cannot read Basque, but it appears 680,629 (36.2%) of population in the Basque Autonomous Community claim to speak Basque, with a further 18% stating they are passive speakers:
https://www.argia.eus/fitxategiak/ckfinder/files/VII_INKESTA_SOZIOLINGUISTIKOA_laburpena.pdf Culloty82 (talk) 12:41, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  2021 Sociolinguistic Survey results 

message: As a native gipuzkera speaker, the VAST majority of gipuzkera subdialects do have a tt sound very clearly distinguished from tx and dd also does exist. It's an absolute disgrace you will not allow me and many others to correct that. Shame on all of you. 2A0C:5A80:1307:EA00:191:668C:FF76:59AA (talk) 21:04, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It's an absolute disgrace that Wikipedia isn't left to being a collection of claims that thousands of anonymous users make, all accepted just because they say so? If you're correct and it's documented in a reliable source, then you need only provide such a source. If there isn't any, then it's going to have to remain one of the many true things that aren't covered here because the alternative would be also to allow millions of falsehoods. Largoplazo (talk) 23:53, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tt sound 

message: We now know that the Basques have one of the highest Steppe migrant Y-DNA - almost 100%. Did anyone address the Basque language in this regard? Did anyone try to analize it on the possibility of it being a Steppe language, searching for Steppe traits in it, like Indo-European has been studied? --95.24.65.132 (talk) 15:26, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have any source backing that up? Who is "we" exactly? -- VerusPhoebusApollo (talk) 14:52, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Steppe hypothesis 

message: Data from the most recent language survey can be found here, if anyone is motivated to add it in: https://basquetribune.com/the-basque-language-gains-speakers-but-no-surge-in-usage/ 2600:1702:6D0:5160:ACFA:FB1C:2E00:E86F (talk) 01:39, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  2021 language survey data 

message: It seems that the first mention of Euskara is possibly from Marzuq ibn Uskara, a basque from Medieval Iberia, can anyone check this out? https://puebladecastro.blogspot.com/2018/10/archuza-de-bahlul-ibn-marzuq-el.html Yefa36 (talk) 07:40, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: It's claimed in that WP:BLOG that this work (without page number) is the source for that statement: Cañada Juste, Alberto (1980), Los Banu Qasi (714-924), Príncipe de Viana, Año Nº 41, Nº 158-159, págs. 5-96, ISSN 0032-8472. DeCausa (talk) 08:10, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  First mention of the noun Euskara? 

message: The article begins non-scientifically asserting IE coming from Anatolia at some point in Bronze Age, something totally unproven. Kostandisloukos (talk) 09:42, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no mention of Anatolia anywhere on the page. Try your luck arguing that IE didn't move into Europe from further east on the Indo-European languages page and should you succeed there (you won't), come back here and we'll look into it. Akerbeltz (talk) 15:27, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: (I had already removed the funky passages in question.) Remsense诉 15:28, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  IE theory variant