Learn Some Basque
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 2: Basque: Innovation by Culture / 2.3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2016 July 07
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2016, Item SFF2016_0707_Basque_Speaking_Basque_0005
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copies available
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content: Jose Francisco "Kinku" Zinkunegi; Errukine Olaziregi Euskara, the Basque language, is spoken on both sides of the far Western Pyrenees, in territories belonging to both Spain and France. Unrelated to any other and thought to be the oldest in Europe, it was spoken prior to the arrival of Indo-European languages (about 4400 BCE). The Basque homeland was originally called Euskal Herria, literally "the land of the Basque language" and its population euskaldunak, "the possessors of the Basque language." In this workshop learn some Basque and become one of the euskaldunak!