More Languages, Better Business
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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 08
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content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2016, Item SFF2016_0708_Basque_Euskaldunak_Dialogues_0001
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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: John Bieter (presenter); Jon Lasa; Mirien Caneliada (participants) Euskara, the Basque language, is spoken on both sides of the far Western Pyrenees, in territories belonging to both Spain and France. Euskara is the language of daily life, but with the overwhelming presence of majority languages creates contexts where multiple languages must be spoken in order to compete economically. Euskara must coexist with these majority languages, which presents a challenge to its growth. Join a narrative session discussing the linguistic challenges and opportunities that Basque people face.