Hi, I'm a native Basque speaker and I must admit I'm really impressed. Everything you've said is accurate af. Congratulations, this is an amazing video and it is clear that you have made a great deal of research. I hope you continue making such good videos.

GoldenAgeSk8Video

4 күн бұрын

@Atilla Kutluhhh…NO. The Basque language is OLDER than the Turkish/Turkic language. Stop with the Turkish nationalism 🇹🇷 to say you birthed Europe & “we came from you”. 🙄 😑 P.S. I did my DNA 🧬 test & ZERO Turkish ancestry. 😒 😂

I have mad respect for the Basque speakers, not only did they survive for 12,000 years of constant speaking. But they survived the Indo European expansion, The Celtic Expansion, the Roman Expansion, The Spanish speaking World, the Arab expansion, and now the English speaking world, if I’m not wrong I think the Germanic tribe invasion after the fall of Rome. And possible many more invasive things. Your people probably went through hell to keep this amazing language alive and active. Mad respect

Roberteau Frederic

6 күн бұрын

​@Triangulll much older

rrorriMkcalB

Ай бұрын

@Triangulll I think truthfully we don’t really know exactly how old the language is… but I feel like 6,000 is probably a closer estimate? but what do I know

Triangulll

Ай бұрын

12,000 years? Basque is just like 6000 years like most European languages

"Emakume", in english "woman", is made up of two words : "eman" (in english "give") + "(k)ume" (in english "child). Almost all the words in basque are compound words by base-words (which are usually monosyllabic). The meaning of the compound word is the relationship between the meanings of the base words.

AitorKravitz

2 ай бұрын

@handia de los dos, y de iparralde, y antiguamente de toda Gascuña, Aragón y pirineo catalan

AitorKravitz

2 ай бұрын

@Cherpi amona (grandmother) comes from ama+ona, good mother

Dani

3 ай бұрын

Thats so cool. They just being so logical and direct to the point. Childgiver 😊

Lior Sultanov

3 ай бұрын

Derogatory.

The french republic suppressed basque and all other 'regional' languages by banning them in schools too. They also created a culture of shame around those languages which was almost fatal to them, and the governments today still continue to slowly and shamelessly kill our languages in the name of 'unity'.

Nerd Analog

10 күн бұрын

@DropkicktheDecepticon First please explain "France has suppressed its languages constantly". At least give at time frame. Is it when the country was split in many different "duchés"? During the Hundred Years War? Perhaps during the Renaissance when there was a massive migration of Portuguese and Spanish in the Basque Country and France? Perhaps more recent times, like today when regional languages are studied in universities? Imagine that a pre indo european language that is not only studied in universities, still taught and talked, regional aids given to associations to help them teach the language, but it is apparently being "suppressed". Explain. My grand parents spoke fluent gascon. Unfortunately, my parents did not learn enough to teach me. That is how a language dies. Maybe, just maybe, instead of putting in your uneducated opinion based on no facts, actually read what the peoples of different epochs stated. That would be a good start. Finally, if you want to have a cohesive country with an identity, you need a cohesive culture. This does not mean that everyone is the same, or thinks the same. Within France, there is a great diversity in architecture, traditions, history, accents, political opinions, religious or non-religious beliefs, ways of life, hobbies, etc... Yet, within that diversity, everyone is French, has a shared common experience of certain distinct French experiences that you will find nowhere else in the world. And the same is true for every country in the world. If I tell you it's "raining like pissing cows" you won't understand. If I tell you its raining like "cats and dogs" you will understand me. That is what having a shared and official language does. Parce que si je commence à t'écrire en français et que tu ne comprends rien à la langue, alors tu ne vas pas saisir les tenants et aboutissants de la conversation. Sérieux, je ne comprends pas la polémique. C'est quoi faudrait que personne ne se comprenne, qu'on parle tous des langues différentes? Et alors comment faire si dans une région où ils parlent un patois il y a un litige avec d'autres gens d'une autres région qui communiquent dans un autre patois? Faut compter sur des traducteurs pour tout? Go out in the real world and experience it for real, not just the Club Med.

DropkicktheDecepticon

10 күн бұрын

@Objects in Motion You're saying individuality is part of the "problem"... it's not. It's a group mindset. And I'm not suggesting a privelaged world. I think I've made it pretty clear that I detest those in power. But there will literally always be bloodshed. It's part of human psycology. We can either deny it and turn into useless nothings, with no reason to exist and no happiness, or we can try and find outlets for them. When wars didn't kill millions, they were commonplace. Dying wasn't scary to those people because they knew they lived their lives to the fullest. If we act like scared, pampered, caged animals, in a vain, boring, soulless peace, we have no right to live as humans. That's not a human way to live; without culture. Without life.

DropkicktheDecepticon

10 күн бұрын

To this whole comments section: Languages die due to a combination of many factors, but the unifying cause is governments and a lack of understanding of culture. For a long time, governments have suppressed languages, seeing them as "bad for their country's unity" which is somewhat true. But after the industrial revolution, small communities disapeared as they moved to cities. This destroyed dialects and languages, as the need for a standard appeared. In the modern day, not only does this continue, but our modern tech allows governments to push their standard. They force it upon us, and children regress, and forget the cultural ways of their grandparents. Because of Westerners becoming decadent, we no longer have value in our cultures, so a desire to preserve our dialects, languages, communities vanishes. Governments don't want us to be distinct. The less distinct we are, the easier we are to mind control with iPhones, propaganda, and the easier we are to sell stuff to. We also have advanced transport, meaning large-scale immigration further eradicates cultures as people blend together, losing things that make them different. You know how Brits complain about London "not being British anymore"? Well that's why. What I'm saying is, Western society is a sham. We've seen time and time again that all these technological advancements are bad for us, all these aggressive governments are bad for us, and such a population boom is bad for us. I'd rather live in a world with death and war if dying and warring meant something. I don't want to live in a world where people are brainwashed into consumerism, and lose sight of what makes life valuable. My advice? Gather a couple thousand people and move into the countryside to raise some cattle. Live for yourselves. Abandon silly things like phones, trains, cars, washers, and just live for life's sake. Enjoy it. We aren't here forever, and that time simply shouldn't be wasted on this slavery. Maybe I sound like a wacko, idk. I just know that the disapearing of languages in the modern day is part of a larger death- the death of "humanity".

I am basque, I speak basque thanks to school. A lot of students complain about the fact that it's almost compulsory to study every subject in that language. I think it's great, even if sometimes people whose mother tongue is spanish hace difficulties to express fully with the teachers or in essays and exams. The only way to protect it is by making it a big part of our culture, it's fragile, it's beautiful and very special. Euskara babestu!

Diomedes

8 күн бұрын

Qué lindo, che, proteger las lenguas persiguiendo a los ciudadanos... *Frío y miedo*

Ma'a Pau'u

20 күн бұрын

@lou machado That's just a conspiracy theory. The Basque people aren't related to people from theoretical Atlantis.

EM

26 күн бұрын

@Edwin Hidalgo 8% Basque here! 😂 I wish I could speak it

Gomes

2 ай бұрын

I'm Portuguese and I'm glad that children learn basque despite not wanting to. Theyll be thankful to have such a rich unique culture in the future. We must protect ancient diamonds like this language. There is little to no record of the lusitanian language so its impossible to learn it. I wish I could have learned it against my will in school haha XD

Ethan K.

3 ай бұрын

Hmm I do want to see basque revived but I respectfully disagree. It's not right that someone's grades should suffer because they have to study in a different language that they struggle with. That's putting a child at what could be potentially life long economic disadvantage due to our qualificationcentric modern world where you need almost "straight A's" to get a decent job. Unless of course you're willing to work a blue collar job

I am Basque and I have to admit that I love to see people from other countries that are not spain speak about our language so that more people know it

leomuar 128

2 ай бұрын

@soila reyes Yeah, it has more meanings but simple is one of them.

soila reyes

2 ай бұрын

hello my name is soila. i came to this video by doing research on my name. is it true that soila means simple

Some interesting facts about basque (I'm basque): "Water" is said "ur" in modern basque, but in the ancient basque it was said "iz". Modern basque words including "iz" are: "izerdi", in english "sweat" (literally "half water"); "izotz", in english "ice" (literally "cold water"); "izurde", in english "dolphin" (literally "water pig"). Basques had its own 'pagan' religion (with its mythology). But betwen 10th and 17th century the Church supressed basque religion. Its said that the basque lenguage was alredy spoken when men were living in caves. Its easy to imagine the people back then saying: ur/iz (water), su (fire), zur (wood), aiz (rock), lur (ground), ke (smoke), jo (hit), jan (eat), lan (work), lor (achieve)... Actually "axe" is said "aizkora", which includes the word "aiz" (rock) on it. So its posible that when basque was ""created"" the axes were still made out of rocks.

Albergarri788

Ай бұрын

Soy Segoviano/Madrileño y no veas lo mucho que me interesa el vasco. Me encantaría poder, al menos, entenderlo ya que se me hace tan extraño. Las demás lenguas presentes en nuestro país al venir del latín es fácil entender que están diciendo. Me encantaría conocer el idioma sobre todo por como se forma las palabras más complejas al ser una lengua tan antigua, debe ser muy interesante.

Pablo

3 ай бұрын

The axe theory was mostly refuted by scholars, as cool as it would have been

Lara

4 ай бұрын

I remember traveling through the Basque region in the 1990s and finding many links with words in the Finnish language. Veta for water was a common one as were many other odd overlaps at least phonetically. Finnish is also a bit of an anomaly as a European language so I always found that fascinating. I understand there are Hungarian links as well. Oddly disparate geographical and cultural countries. So so interesting. Thanks.

Consumer number 61

7 ай бұрын

amazing

Sarah Cesar

10 ай бұрын

In Indonesian language water is 'air'. Sound similar to ,'ur'. 🤗

Hello! I'm a basque native speaker, I have spoken Basque and Spanish since I was little. I came across your video and I loved it 😄 It's great that a person who lives far from here can explain the language in such a good way. Basque is really difficult to learn, it requires patience and effort; however, I encourage people to do it, because it is beautiful!

أبو بيريجيك

26 күн бұрын

​@goutd'0 utopic I heard rumors about the strange similarities between Armenian and the Basque, but no one can really prove this.

Alberto Cipote

7 ай бұрын

@Reyner Lackerz los vascos son de España y no se puede entender España ni su historia sin los vascos

ElectricAirways

8 ай бұрын

Kaixo* :)

dolbo dangly

8 ай бұрын

@goutd'0 utopic georgia *

As Spaniard from a region without any other language than Castillian, I think it would be really cool if every school teaches as a third language one of the other co-oficial languages of the country. I think that would be very enriching. And basque, of course, is so cool and weird and unique! A pity they didn't teach me that!

Andrés Peredo

Ай бұрын

@Albergarri788 Eso pienso yo. Pero ya sabes que si alguien propone esi inmediatamente va a ser acusado de golpista y de terrorista

Albergarri788

Ай бұрын

DIOS imagínate poder elegir aprender vasco como opción, sería increíbles. Me abriría las puertas para seguir aprendiendo por mí mismo. Y podríamos ser más empáticos con la gente que usa indistintamente el español y su lengua regional. Sería maravilloso

Andrés Peredo

6 ай бұрын

@Yim Veerasak Yes, but it will never happen. The mentality in the right wing is still Spanish nationalistic and their politicians framed a lot of their campaigns in the context of "not giving up to the peripherial nationalisms" (So Spanish nationalism after all)

Yim Veerasak

6 ай бұрын

Your idea is worth an implementation. It enriches Spain.

Larri Txiki

10 ай бұрын

@heartchuu me neither, baldintzas are difficult and also deklinabidea

I know it sounds very awkward to many people. However, the order of words is so amazingly similar to Korean which is known to be another isolated language. Both languages have S+O+V structure. The perfect aspect and the ending with "da" (is) and its variables like dio and du are so similar too. Take one sentence for example from your clip, "The Child fell in the street." could be translated to "Ai-ka Kil-wuie Numeo-jud-da." 아이가 길위에 넘어졌다. Ai(child)+ka(case for subject) Kil(street)+wuie(on, or upon for original meaning but like "in" for your term) Numeo (fall or fell)+jud(perfect aspect)+da(is). "The man has given the book to the child." could be translated into Korean, 아저씨가 아이에게 책을 주었다. Ajeosi-ka Ai-eoke Chaek-ul Ju-eod-da. It is Ajeosi(the man)+ka (case for subject) Ai (child)+eoke(to), Chaek(book)+ul(case for object) Ju(give)-eod(perfect aspect)+da(is). Anyway, it is very interesting.

Thomas Utriainen

29 күн бұрын

So basically it could be easier to learn Basque if you would speak Korean instead of Spanish? 😅

tekne

2 ай бұрын

i also found its structure similar to turkish. it is strange but basque might be close to transeurasian languages

Joop Hoekstra

3 ай бұрын

These similarities could maybe say something about the time at which these languages came to being; the same time period.

Howdy. You may be interested to know that there's a large and very proud Basque community here in Idaho. In Boise, there's a "Basque Quarter" that includes festivals, a museum, and a community center. Pretty interesting!

Marie Din

9 ай бұрын

There’s also a large Basque community in Bakersfield, California. We have several Basque restaurants that are favorites in the area.

Anthony Bermeo

Жыл бұрын

Please know that the University of Nevada Reno has a wonderful Basque Cultural Library and Study curriculum for Advanced Studies. I love the place . Best wishes to all Basques or not Basque. The Staff there are from the heart.

Giant and Omniscient Levitating Baby

Жыл бұрын

What really? How? Do yoy speak basque everyday??

Dubbudha

2 жыл бұрын

Interestingly, some of those communities sometimes even preserve words and expressions that already disappeared in the original dialects or languages.

Kenneth Reilly

2 жыл бұрын

I hang out on the Basque Block every time I'm in town. It's one of my favorite things about Boise.

Las lenguas de la humanidad son uno de los más grandes e invaluables tesoros de éste planeta por lo que un canal dedicado a su difusión, estudio y preservación es también de inestimable valor.

LQuanchi

7 ай бұрын

Este Sujeto es como el tesoro de lenguas

Amador Luque Navajas

Жыл бұрын

Se desconoce la procedencia del idioma, no pertenece a ninguna rama lingüística ,mantiene una estructura gramatical única. Y lo más sorprendente es el idioma más antiguo de Europa

I'm Basque and very proud because of your video, you did a very good job describing this beautiful lenguage! _Eskerrik asko, adiskide!_

Albergarri788

Ай бұрын

@Xabier Lexartza Es triste, pero es verdad. A veces llamarse a uno mismo por ese gentilicio sabiendo todo lo que conlleva detrás es duro. Pero eso no va a quitarme las ganas de que eso cambie. Y según están las cosas España como conjunto va de mal en peor

Martín Jáuregui

Жыл бұрын

@univitas Excuse me, but I would not say that here is an evident "Indo-European influence" just looking at that lexical random coincidence. Though, I neither know nothing about Armenian grammar nor there will never be a definitive consensus about the origin of the Basque or the relation with other languages.

Cat Lily

Жыл бұрын

@Azat Mingalimov Then to be proud of anything you are born into is stupid.

Daniel Ruiz de Garibay

Жыл бұрын

@MrLoobu funny you say that t when actually Basquee language in the Spanish side of the Basque Country is flourishing while in the French part not so much.

david parra serna

Жыл бұрын

The basque language(euskera)has all the verb tenses that exists in spanish language? Present,past,past perfect,future,pretérito indefinido,etc???

Dude, I am basque, so proud of it, and I do speak basque, it is compulsory to learn it in school, and we always try not to loose our language. Thanks for showin it to the world

brian sk

Жыл бұрын

Ikastolara joaten zara?

alon

Жыл бұрын

@latengocomoburro Y cuál es el problema??

José María Castejón

Жыл бұрын

@Василий Мельник There are nations that still maintain their ethnicity, such as the Arab Ismaili tribes, identity, race, ethnicity are all different terms, for example there is today a branch of the Banujmea family in SpainTheir ethnicity is Arabs from the Hijaz, but their race and identity now is a belong to the land in which they live like isabel banujmea, because even their forms change, but this is not an essential example because these preserve the heritage of their family, the genes only show to which ethnicity they belong, but race and identity are linked culturally and geographically

Maria José

Жыл бұрын

@Weasel Era gallego, no castellano

latengocomoburro

Жыл бұрын

@ADGE Parece que saber de lo que estas hablando así que ahi no te puedo discutir.

Unique languages like this are so amazing and fascinating to me.

Liam Oihan Sadlier Puy

Жыл бұрын

eskerrik asko

unixlv

Жыл бұрын

@Super Kami Guru I am a native Finnish speaker and I can agree with you. I'm actually studying Hungarian.

Cueence

Жыл бұрын

unique is the perfect word to describe basques

Super Kami Guru

Жыл бұрын

Other Unique languages are Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian. All three languages are related and are among the only non-Indo-European Languages in Europe (west of Moscow, at least) alongside Basque. The languages are all from West Siberia.

Darth Sion

2 жыл бұрын

There should be a greater effort to study the language's history and preserving it

Interesting comparisons could be made with the structure of languages such as Korean and Japanese. Definitely worth a study.

MrMorgan

Жыл бұрын

I mean there is some found similarity between the Finnic(estonian, hungarian, Finnish) languages and Korean and Japanese. They're believed to be related at some point. So perhaps Basque is related to finnic on some way. And to note proto indo European also has similarities with the ancient languages of Japanese and the finnic family.

plants animated david inventat

Жыл бұрын

I guess

plants animated david inventat

Жыл бұрын

Yeah

송재

Жыл бұрын

@Kenneth Reilly maybe 10,000 thousand years ago old. But "who knows"

I'm sorry YouTube

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! They seem to have a lot in common for being widely considered unrelated languages.

Wow, I'm late to the party! Interesting video. I don't think there's any chance of the Basque language dying in France. We have Basque and French road signs for example. The kiddos learn Basque at school. The French Basque are very proud to be Basque and they continue to pass this important culture on to their mini-Basque people! 😀

Agoateeman

Ай бұрын

I'm so glad to be reading this. It's great that the kids are learning this in school.

Hegoi Urretabizkaia

Жыл бұрын

Hope that keeps for long🤞🏻

Long-timer Langfocus fan here. I was just revisiting this video. I had totally forgot that it opened with you rejoicing and reflecting on hitting 50,000 subscribers. It's January 2023 right now and you're up to 1.4 million - incredible! You must have put in so much time and hard work to get here, Paul. I for one (as well as at least 1.4 million others) appreciate and enjoy your videos. Grazie mille, danke schön, terih makasih, merci, harigato and thank you!!!

I found this video today, 3 years after it was published, celebrating 50,000 subs. The channel is now at 700,000. Dude, nice job. :-)

szolanek

Жыл бұрын

A year later : 1.5 M !

FG Connolly

2 жыл бұрын

now it has 1 million

JojoTV

2 жыл бұрын

1M!

Eduardo Castro

2 жыл бұрын

@LiquidRush 1 MILLION WOOOO

LiquidRush

2 жыл бұрын

just found it at 998K.....almost the million

I' m not basque but I really appreciate their culture and way of life!

Thank you for bringing light to Euskera. We need more people like you that are lovers of language in this world. I am a Basque American, have only learned about half of the language, but have immersed myself deeply in our culture and history. Many many thanks. Eskerrik asko

Liam Oihan Sadlier Puy

Жыл бұрын

Ondo esanda

Malfestio's Café

Жыл бұрын

Alajaina, hori benetako Euskal abizen bat da JAJAJAJ.

I'm a native Basque speaker as well, I also speak Spanish and English like most of the Basque speakers in this comment section. I really like how basque and non-basque people are interacting and asking questions in this comment section, it's nice to be able to talk about this with people around the world :) Cheers, y'all!

I'm so happy for this guy. When he says at the start of the video that he reached 50K subs, I was like "dude, you've come far"

Nick Ark

Жыл бұрын

How many does he have? KZread won't show me for some reason

szolanek

Жыл бұрын

@Langfocus Try to create an Old Greek course. They have a pretty good idea how it sounded.

Oneirus

2 жыл бұрын

@Langfocus Hey it means you've been consistent in creating good content through the years! You shouldn't undervalue the achievement you've made and the amount of interesting knowledge you've given to others through your channel, even if a lot of people are only interested in a little bit of it. I personally am very fascinated with language and want to learn more (just english and spanish now) and your channel has been a tremendous resource in learning more about the unique cultural and linguistic backgrounds of different areas.

Langfocus

2 жыл бұрын

Not really. The number of subscribers doesn’t mean anything. It just means someone clicked a button, but most of them only watch one video on a language they are interested in and never watch again. The number of views is the same as when I made this video.

I am so impressed by Paul's professional knowledge of many languages. What an educational journey for me!

There is a pretty large Basque community in the US (Boise, Idaho specifically) that have basque language preschools and festivals ( and some really good restaurants too).

Metacosmos music band

11 ай бұрын

@Chad Luke once i was at boise library and i read a report on the basques in idaho, it said that the basques were an overproud people always boasting on their race and strenght although most of them were just poor sheepherders.

Chad Luke

11 ай бұрын

@Metacosmos music band Idaho has the largest number of Basques in the United States except for California.

Chad Luke

11 ай бұрын

@Beatles0223 Why should that surprise you?

Joseph Papsidero

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget western Nevada ( Senator Paul Laxalt).

Bass Tian

2 жыл бұрын

Ernesto "Che" Guevara (argentine) was basque and irish (Lynch) descendant. "Guevara" is a basque surname.

I'm Basque and watching this video was amazing. It's clear you did a lot of research and it was a very entertaining video. The fact that the Basque language is so unique and different but it'll probably disappear in some years it's honestly heartbreaking. If anyone is thinking about learning a new language try Basque please because it's v cool and you'd also be helping in it's preservation

Mar Mag

Жыл бұрын

@Alazar Wanderer yeah, not only men, everyone says it, and it's written "tso"

Alazar Wanderer

Жыл бұрын

is it true that in the basque country men sometimes can call each other this way: 'to or 'tso or 'tzo or 'txo or such ?

Mar Mag

2 жыл бұрын

Also I gotta say that not the whole of Spain is trying to protect the language, all the effort comes from the people in the Basque Country and Navarra, the rest of Spain doesn't care much.

I'm Japanese, and had a sense of affinity for Basque language. The Basque grammar is like SOV, just like Japanese.

ERENCIO YEGUA

27 күн бұрын

The same applies for Quechua (a South American native language) it is SOV !!! So many "isolated" non Proto Indo European languages that use SOV

hollyhockgod

Ай бұрын

I'm basque and I'm learning Japanese, and I have found some funny coincidences between the two: japanese: 鳥。 basque: txori 「チョリ」 japanese: ◯◯だ。 basque: ◯◯da. japanese: ばかり。 basque: bakarrik. Also, one of the basque gods, the dragon Sugaar, in some places is called Sugoi, as Suge= 蛇 and Goi=上. So it's literally すごい.

garate

11 ай бұрын

Damn, I was wondering why some phrases I tried to learn/read in Japanese were kind of "comfortable" for me while so many people had issues when trying to get the meanings in the correct order. TIL!

France has a long way to go before embracing regional languages and dialects again, hopefully it will before it is too late. I always think about how patois Norman died a little more each generation in my own family. Grandparents could speak it but didn’t. My dad could understand it in his youth (but probably can’t anymore) because his grandparents spoke it, and definitely couldn’t speak it. I can neither speak it nor understand it.

I've just come back from my holidays in Euskadi, I fell in love with this country. Basque people are doing really great job in preserving their unique language and culture, they must be proud of it. Now I'm curious in learning more about its origins and your video is the most informative I've found so far.

i am half romanian half basque so i am very happy both languages are getting more recognition lately, also good analysis on both, your videous are great.

Im from Andalucia(south Spain) and for me, the Basque language and folklore is the native culture of all the peninsule before the celtic and roman invasion, im proud of have this people in my country and the rest of the country should learn about them

Freddy Krueger

Ай бұрын

@Hannah G As a Spaniard, I can tell you that *only* separatists and terrorist are not happy about being Spanish. Not all Basques, only the separatists. About Catalonia, the Catalan autonomous government has started a process of positive discrimination against Spanish language in order to "preserve Catalan from extinction". As a Spaniard who loves languages, I'm really proud of all those languages spoken in my homeland and I want them to be spoken here, not in separate countries.

Hao MarvelDC 3.0

2 ай бұрын

@Napsterter because im pretty sure this historians dont have any knowledge about linguistic

Hao MarvelDC 3.0

2 ай бұрын

@Napsterter Which historians is this might i ask?

Napsterter

2 ай бұрын

@Hao MarvelDC 3.0 Historians says the oposite. If you see the names of the cities of Spain, Portugal, Ireland and UK or France, you'll see names To- in the regions where celtics lived.

Hao MarvelDC 3.0

2 ай бұрын

@Napsterter Plus linguistic nowaday classified that Tartessos language is unknown while Celtic language is classified as Indo-European

You did a pretty good job explaining our language. That structure was greatly accurate. Just a little bit of context. Basque from the northern part (France) is quite different than the southern part. Also my granma who will be 99 this november '22 understands better basque than my mom from 1951 due to that ban from the Franco era.

As a Basque person and native speaker I love to see how well done is this video. I would like to see more deepest into the verbs conjugation, which I think is also special.

The sentence structure is so unique. I like to think of it as a play. In Basque, you first place the individuals/locations involved in the sentence, and then the verbs in order of activity.

I'm basque and I've speak euskera (the basque language) since I started to speak!! I'm very proud of it!! Fortunately, the number of basque speakers is growing considerably!! Hope one day will be become again the mother language of all basque people!!!

Pedro Garcia

2 жыл бұрын

@guess who No hace falta que para alabar lo vasco nos insultes a los demás. Porque por tradición no se es honrado, ni en España ni en ningún sitio, se es por educación y convicción.

Nuncio Sidereo

2 жыл бұрын

Let people speak what ever they want instead of telling people what how to speak. It s better to improve the conditions of someone than they speak the language you want. Euskera is gaining more and more speakers tho.

guess who

2 жыл бұрын

Claro que sí!! Me encanta vuestra cultura. Los únicos honrados por tradición en España lol

I moved a lot during my life and at one time I spent a year teaching English in Euskadia but I learned almost no euskera. One word I did learn from one of my 5-year-old students was *agur* which means "goodbye" but I will never forget him nor all my students who were so welcoming and I wish I did not have to learn agur.

Spanish (Castilian to be precise) phonology is based on Basque. I've heard the phrase: "Castilian is what came out of a Basque trying to speak Latin".

FuturoPasado

2 ай бұрын

@Susana Leave Oficialmente es el castellano, pero hoy en día se resume en el español, para darle un sentido amplio y multicultural ya que lo hablan muchos paises. Pero el idioma matriz moderno base de todas las formas de español es el castellano.

zarzaparrilla67

2 ай бұрын

@FuturoPasado Today Basque people are mixed, but it was indeed a race

FuturoPasado

2 ай бұрын

@zarzaparrilla67 Basque is not a race, it was a lenguage probably talked in a extended area in europe. But just survived in today called basque country. Castillian is a mix or arabic latin and basque influence.

Leonidas Marronidas

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@Dan Dei I allready explained that. RAE accepts "spanish", but is a less correct term. Linguists agree that the more correct word is the less confusing, the less ambiguous. Ant that's allways "castilian" and never "spainish", objectively and in all the possible contexts (allready explained). Spanish Costitution can help you if you don't understand that.

david parra serna

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Hay un canal llamado langfocus y tiene un video que dice languages without verb tenses=idiomas sin tiempos verbales

I have been very interested in learning about the Basque language ever since I came to know about a decade ago that it is pre-Indo-european. Hope the language continues to grow in its place of origin and is preserved for all time.

carlotapuig

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Mass migration and very low fertility rates among indigenous Basques are causing great harm to the Basque language. Most migrants don't appreciate the language and only learn the minimum possible (it's mandatory in school), sometimes nothing at all. IMHO, migrants who actively refuse to learn Basque should be expelled from the Basque country.

I had no idea I have basque ancestry until recently, and I’m so interested in learning about this language now that I have read about them and know that a chunk of my ancestors were Basque. I guess I also had no idea my grandmother had a Basque last name until recently.

As a basque and native basque speaker I am I just wanted to thank you for showing one of most valuable treasures that our culture has and for explaining it so well. Eskerrik asko! 🤜🤛

Cat Lily

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@Mikel How do you pronounce the "x" ?

Alazar Wanderer

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@Mikelok Thank you very much bro

Mikel

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Exactly... The right way is "txo". We usually say "eh, txo" like in english it's said "hey buddie" or "hey dude". Btw... "Agur" means "Goodbye". You should have said "kaixo" to say "hello" 😉

Alazar Wanderer

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Agur Mikel, pls reply me, is it true that in the basque country men sometimes can call each other this way: 'to or 'tso or 'tzo or 'txo or such ?

You have reminded me how proud I feel to be one of the few in the world who speaks Basque or what we call it here "euskera"

Julen Gerrikagogeaskoetaranburuakordagoitiagirre

10 ай бұрын

@Kenneth Reilly Oso interesgarria lagun. Ongi etorria izango zara :)

Kenneth Reilly

2 жыл бұрын

Kaixo! Euskara ikasten ari naiz eta Euskal Herrira joan nahi dut.

I clicked on this video after watching a basque movie on Netflix. After hearing about the ban of the language, it makes me really happy that a movie completely in this interesting language exists and that I watched it with the original basque audio and english subtitles

You should definitely do a video on the Finnish language, and the Uralic Language family as a whole. I've been waiting for that video for quite a while actually. x(

armzngunz

3 жыл бұрын

@Markie C Lapps and Sami are the same.

Afghan Lion

5 жыл бұрын

+Jake Garcia Not really, they are mostly olive skinned, Northern Europeans are the most palest.

Afghan Lion

6 жыл бұрын

Adam Simon Almqvist British isles refers to Ireland & Scotland too smart one, not only England. The Irish are more darker complexed compared to the English who resemble Germanics.

Adam Malmö

6 жыл бұрын

You wouldn't say "majority" but you would say "most". How does that work out, logically speaking? ;)

Afghan Lion

6 жыл бұрын

Marcantonio H Well i wouldn't say majority but a lot of brits do descend from anglo saxons that invaded England in the early CE. But yeah most people of the birtish isles descend from basques of northern spain.

Hello! I'm from the Basque Country and I speak Euskera. It was pretty intereting to look how other people talk about your own language, and all the information given was correct. And now, I'll write down some useful sentences that you can use: -Kaixo, zer moduz? ~Hello, how are you? -Ondo nago, eta zu? ~I'm fine, and you? -Zer ordu da? ~What time is it? -Non dago __ kalea? ~Where is the __ street? -Eskerrik asko! ~Thank you! I'll continue if you want!

david parra serna

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Euskera language has all the verb tenses that exists in spanish?present,past,future,conditional,etc???

Archie Demir

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You are descendants of Western Huns. They are turanian nation such as magyars ,Turks etc.In fact Turk is kinda surname of all of them that's why byzantinne called hungary is a western tourkia. Celts and Basque people are Turanian.

Renato Babka

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@Electra Ciobanu it's also close to Spanish Calle.

Electra Ciobanu

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Please, continue, it is very interesting.

Electra Ciobanu

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"Kalea"means street. In the romanian language a synonim for "road" is "calea".I guess this is a lexical accident, but it is interesting.

I love it when I come across videos celebrating achievements like reaching 50,000 subscribers. And, at this time, I see that Paul has 1.32 MILLION subscribers. :) Great content deserves recognition.

"50 thousand subscribers seemed like the pinnacle" - that statement has aged exceedingly well 😂. You earned every single subscriber because your videos are top notch!

I speak basque, I'm from Biscay and it's amazing to see this vídeos about my language knowing that it was (and still is) in the edge of extintion. It's a wonderful language, and very hard at the same time, but I invite you all to learn it.

Erik Romero Frontaura

2 жыл бұрын

@a i I won't. In the Basque Country, as we know our languages status, we are working by teaching the kids and young people, our responsibility to keep our language alive. It has grown a lot this last years

Erik Romero Frontaura

2 жыл бұрын

@baller Yeah hahahah

a i

2 жыл бұрын

You musn't forget this language otherwise you will get disappeared

baller

2 жыл бұрын

I am from Turkey and I really want to learn that language...(do you recognise where my pfp from)

Erik Romero Frontaura

2 жыл бұрын

@Zenytram Searom basically

I spent a few days in Basque country, looking for places where people were speaking Basque in everyday speech, as their primary language. And I listened to it on TV. On TV, most people spoke it with a very strong Castillian Spanish accent. But when I finally found a town where everyone was speaking in Basque, including young people, there the accent was very different from Spanish. That is when I realized that when you hear Spaniards speaking Basque with a Spanish accent, and French speaking Basque with a French accent, you are hearing people who have learned Basque later in life - it is a second language for those people.

There should have been an honorable mention to Boise, Idaho. The place with one of the largest Basque communities outside of Basque country. I see a Basque flag everyday on my way to and from work.

Tami Palin

2 жыл бұрын

@R A my aunt’s parents were both full Basque and lived in Jordan Valley when they were younger then moved to Boise. You very rarely meet Basque people here in the Boise area who are not intensely proud of their heritage!

PAGOLA Iñaki

3 жыл бұрын

@El Visigodo omg my family is from the French part.

Daniel Gimenez

4 жыл бұрын

Here we all say that to be a true basque you ought to have an uncle in the americas! haha

puma

4 жыл бұрын

and another case in point are the republics of Chile, and Colombia where about 14% of the population is of basque origin, like myself... Gora Euskal Herria!

R A

4 жыл бұрын

My family is from Bizkaia and many of them immigrated to Idaho and eastern Oregon.

I love how all these people are supporting the language I speak and the place I come from :) it makes me feel really happy, sadly it is in danger now, more and more people speak Spanish instead of Basque because it is easier

bravo for ALL your videos. I particularly like that you are always extremely precise even in this "fast" format. for instance you always say "before the arrival of the indo-european languages" and not "before the arrival of the indo-europeans". those substile differences definitely make your work impressively serious.

Nice video! In Antioquia, Colombia a lot of our surnames are of Basque origin, and some of our traditions (specially in rural areas) are a mix of Basque, Sefardí and Spanish.

Hello there, I am very happy to see this video. I introduce myself, I am ekaitz, from Pamplona, ​​Navarra. Very good video and thank you very much for supporting our language. I would like to "correct" you in two things. The first is that the language is not Basque, it is Euskera. It comes from Euskal Herria translated, a people from the Euskera language. Pompaelo was a city in Navarra created by a Roman named Pompello. Second, General Franco, apart from what you have commented on the video, shot and tortured those who spoke Basque in his years of governance, what he did was cruel and the damage and losses caused by implementing Spanish governance, the prisoners They were taken to France, Paris so that their families could not see them because they did not have money to travel and other things they did and they do not know. It's a real shame😔 a huge greeting from here (translated with translator)

BryanAJParry

Жыл бұрын

The word in English is "Basque".

Hi, I'm not basque but french and Swiss. My mother came from Switzerland, from the Graubunden . There are mountains and valley. My mother speak also an exclusive language named retho rumantsch. The people who speak this language are less and less, disappearing for german. My mother said that this language is originated from the Étrusque. I don't know if it's true, but I like to imagine, like a legend that it's true. You are right, It's sad too see "little language " desapear for main stream language like french German, or Spanish. By in basque, Sorry I don't speak very englisch but not a words in basque.

The Basque language is unique, and needs to be valued as such

Was always curious who the basque people were and this video helped a lot. I'm a hungarian so I know what it is like to be surrounded by totaly different language groups. Love Basque Country from Hungary

Jto21

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You belong to central asia. The mongols did a big job on creating your kinda languages.

I've found this 6 years later, and thank you so much for researching our language so well :)) a lot of new research has actually come to light ^^

Half Georgian scientist(linguist, historian) Nikolai Marr traveled in Basque country and he found many similarities between Basque and Gurian(Guria-region in Georgia, where he was raised) life styles^^ also, as far as i know, some of their surnames are the same as Migrelian(Kartvelian languge, region is Samegrelo) surnames:))) So, i believe that Basque and Georgian languages are related🤷🏽‍♀️💕 P.S i'm interested in learning Basque language someday, thanks for the video💜

Noah Tyler Pritchett

10 ай бұрын

They might be related via Anatolian farmer population. If you know a damn when it comes to prehistoric archaeology and genetics you know Europe had the Hunter Gatherers (WHG and EHG) as well as Anatolian farmers, and Indo-Europeans of course, the steppe herders, its likely before the Indo-European Kurgan Yamnaya steppe migration, or "Aryans" if you prefer, extinct cultures and language families from the early European Neolithic Anatolian farmers, who lived all over Europe, except parts of Eastern Europe like Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, but from the rest of Europe, the Caucasus, Anatolia (no brainer) and even a few groups that made it to the Maghreb, its not surprising if Basque and Georgian are the same language family like Indo-European is. Unfortunately or fortunately depending on who you are and how you look at it, the Indo-Europeans wiped out and assimilated most of the Anatolian farmer populations.

I'm watching this in the beginning of 2022 and I've always loved your channel! Learning about other languages always fascinated me and you're really one of the best language channels out there. Also you were happy to be celebrating 50,000 subscribers and now you've got 1.29 million!!!

Very interesting and informative! Just to add to the air of mystery around Basque, I have seen the case made that it seems to be eerily similar in some of its vocabulary to the language of the Ainu of Japan. As these languages are separated by vast distances and presumably times most would put any resemblance down to sheer coincidence but if there are too many of them maybe that might need to be reconsidered. It could be a bit like the fact that some tribal people of South America are much more closely genetically related to Melanesians than seemed possible and even have similar cultural patterns...

I'm basque, and all I have to say is thank you! this video is masterpiece.

Alazar Wanderer

Жыл бұрын

Agur Gorka, pls tell me, is it true that in the basque country men sometimes can call each other this way: 'to or 'tso or 'tzo or 'txo or such ?

Txetxu

4 жыл бұрын

@MrRaubtierify1998 Catalan and Basque aren't Spanish languages. They are spoken in Spain and France so they aren't nor Spanish nor French. They are Basque and Catalan. No more no less.

philyhero33go

4 жыл бұрын

victoria zabaras what the heck? Hey guys I think this guy is drunk

philyhero33go

4 жыл бұрын

Gorka Bengoechea basque sounds some type language from Spanish or some language there

Aitzol GM

4 жыл бұрын

MrRaubtierify1998 basque and catalan arent spanish lenguages, they are very diferent.

Paul. Your videos are one of the treasures of you tube. You help us all to understand the incredible linguistic richness and diversity of this world. I hope you are teaching at a university. Your lectures are so scholarly but never dry! Thank you/muchas gracias/obrigado/jenkuye/koh nee chee wa

Langfocus

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, John!

I didn't even know about the Basque language until I did a study abroad program in the French half of the Basque region. I saw one street sign in Basque and was like "I have never anything like that language ever before". Had no idea it had such a crazy history.

Fascinating! You should do a video on the Alsatian dialect. Similar to what has happened to Basque under Franco -- the French have gone all out over the past century to wipe it out. Few, I understand, speak this ancient dialect today.

This is crazy, I am from Trinidad and Tobago and I did my dna heritage test, which tied me to this Basque region. While in Trinidad, there is a french patois that is practically a dead language now, but it is so interesting how much the phonology of this is similar to our french patois, even with completely different sentence structure.

Dear Paul, thank you for your interesting KZread channel. Recently I watched your video called “Basque - A Language of Mystery”. I don't speak Basque, but from your video I got the impression that the grammatical structure of Basque has a lot in common with Armenian (my native language). For example, the article “the”and the auxiliary verbs in Armenian stand at the end of the noun and after the verb just like in Basque, so that’s why I think that the statement that the Basque is very different from any other Indo-European language, is not completely true. After your video I was inspired by the similarities mentioned above and did some research. I found out that in Basque folklore and historiographical tradition it is fixed that the Basque people are the descendants of Aitor, who came from Armenia (besides, the name Aitor in Armenian means “the grandson of an Armenian”). I’ll be happy to know your opinion about these facts and once again I’d like to thank you for your amazing job.

The best comment section I've ever seen with so many fascinating contributions. Thank you people - Basque culture is amazing

Im from the UK but have Spanish, Basque, and Valencian blood. I would love to learn all those languages but struggle with Spanish! If it was easier for me id definitely pick up some Valencian, and Basque, and take a trip out and see them all

It vaguely reminds me of the Japanese phrase structure. They also put the verb in the end. Thank you, fantastic video!

Looks really like a agglutinative language, such as japanese or korean in the way it's built. It's totally fascinating that this language is still a mystery. I kinda hope it stays that way ahah, that makes it even more interesting! Although I would legit be interested in knowing it's origin.

Kenneth Reilly

2 жыл бұрын

It's agglunative and has similarities with Japanese, Ainu, Inuktitut, and possibly other languages. Since Euskara has been spoken in the Basque region for thousands of years (prior to the expansion of Indo-European languages), and it has similarities with other language isolates found on coastal regions, the only real explanation is a coastal migration and/or some dispersion event from many thousands of years ago.

I am Basque and one of my life's endeavors is to learn my native language. Having been born in the USA I was never exposed to the language. But I hope to eventually be able to converse with my "cousins" in Urretxu, where my last name comes from.

I watched with a great interest. I remember, that years ago there were long disputes and discussions about relation between Basque and Georgian languages and one of the reasons was existence of ergative case. In Georgian, we also have ergative.

I need this language to be available in Duolingo.

•TIPS•

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Hii im speak vasco and i dont speak inglis

Hodeiertz

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@WtC somehow yes, but then, there are many other features that have nothing to do with morphology that make the language being very linked to nature and logic, it's a very 'organic' and transparent language

Hodeiertz

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@Василий Мельник by the way, I am currently learning Russian if you want to make a tandem on Skype just let me know

Hodeiertz

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@Василий Мельник hi man! Well you have some resources on line that are very helpful, but you need to know how to find them and how to take the biggest advantage of all it, as not everything is easily findable or classified by levels. I mean there is a lot of work of organisation of the materials and contents. Myself I learnt it because I am Basque, we learn it in the public education system (most of the subjects are entirely taught in Basque) and then we have official centers and organisations to learn it once you are an adult, you pay normally and affordable amount of money and if you pass the assessment or you get any certificate you could get back up to the 80/90% of what you expended. Myself I am a linguist and a Basque teacher, if you need any help finding things let me know I could help you ;)

WtC

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@Hodeiertz I guess it's more regular because it's agglutinative

I´m really proud of being Basque and being able to speak it since I was a child. Eskerrik asko bideo hau egiteagatik, oso lagungarria da gure kultura hobeto ezagutzeko!!! (Thank you so much for making this video, it is very helpful for knowing better our culture!!!)

I'm from Basque country and I can speak Basque. I'm very proud of me because it is the one of the most beautiful language in the world.

Incredibly interesting (what a history the Basques have), thanks Paul!

this video was very informative and helpful . thanks ! was at a parade yesterday in San Sebastián. this place is something else. just wow. the people, the food, the bay! just so damn different and interesting !!

Thank you making this video to protect the language of Basque! As you have said, it is a shame to lose such unique language! I totally agree!

Mexico is greatly influenced by the basque, for starters the Mexican liberators were of Basque heritage, Hidalgo, Iturbide just to name a few, our flag has the same colors as the Basque flag and from what I've read Mexico has the largest number of basque descendants outside of Europe.

Longshanks

8 ай бұрын

yes, many mexicans have basque last names

daniel walker guerrero

5 жыл бұрын

Mario G but an even larger number (eexponentially ) of Spaniards . and by extension Basques and all other Spanish Regional nationals are all Spaniards wether they agree or not , we are all Iberian by blood and Spaniard by heritage

Cicero

6 жыл бұрын

Mario G I wish Mexicans and Americans could get along better

Obrigado para quem traduz esses vídeos para o português!

I'm basque and I can say that this vidéo is very well-done because I learnt some things 👍👏

s

2 жыл бұрын

@Василий Мельник That's a good theory- I wonder... Tbh Etruscan seems like it's not Indo-European, but it's a very close relative of Indo-European, like they share a common origin

Василий Мельник

2 жыл бұрын

Is basque and etruscan related?

Василий Мельник

2 жыл бұрын

@Edwin Hidalgo cool!

Toph :3

2 жыл бұрын

Same

Hey, can you do one about the mirandese language, spoken in northen Portugal?? It is also spoken in Spain, under the names of austuro/leonese. Thanks, great work, as always

In Canadian French, we have a few words from Basque origins because of their contribution in the discovery of Canada. I have some examples like "orignal" which comes from Basque "oreinak" and "barachois" which comes from "barratxoa."

Alazar Wanderer

10 ай бұрын

oreinak is an armenian word, too we say orinak in contemp. armenian euskera comes from the 1st old armenian language

Have you done Yiddish? I see you have a short comparative video between Yiddish and Hebrew but I was really hoping for a full video just because I love your stuff and it's really informative and I am actually trying to teach myself a bit.

One of my most favorite classical music composers of the Impressionist Movement, so well-loved for his piano music was Maurice Ravel, and he was Basque, according to his biography. Probably the only Basque person to break into such a French dominated music scene.

Laura Carías

5 жыл бұрын

He's the best!!!! I didn't knew he was basque :O Amazing

I find a striking resemblance between the sentence structure of Basque and my native Bengali. Bengali and Assamese are the easternmost members of the Indo European family, and have been deeply influenced by other language families.

This is a great video, I am Basque and I am a native speaker. The examples are really clear and well done. If someone knows about people who want to understand how Euskera is talked and the way we make sentences I would really show them this video. Congratulations man, aupa hi!

Misterioso pueblo, misterioso lugar, misteriosa lengua... ¡Fascinante!. ¡Está lengua, se ve tremendamente eficiente!; Solo ver qué el inglés necesita muchas más palabras para decir lo mismo, o incluso menos... (¡Hasta el doble, o triple! 🤯!)

Amazing video! Basque is definitely the most interesting European language.

Paul, I very do appreciate your efforts to promote less known languages and thus helping them to survive!

Hello! It is amazing to see that people show devotion to our culture and language. You have done a great job with this video, congratulations!! Thank you very much, eskerrik asko!

LL 2

5 жыл бұрын

idoia valverde Ur culture is very unique, I hope the future generations can see the basque culture and language

I've often heard about the striking resemblance in word order between Basque and Korean. Now I see what it means for the first time. Very interesting.

It's really amazing for me to see all these people who speak Basque. I live in the Basque country and I speak Basque, I go to a Basque college. Finally, a little word in Basque! Biziki uros naiz inglesez mintzo diren personak euskarari interesatua direla ikustea, milesker zuei ! Muxu handiak !

That was so informative. I had heard of the Basque language but this is the first time I am understanding its history. The use of the definite article in the suffix position surely is very different from any other Indo-European language, but, well, the ergative case is rare, yes, but found in some Indo-European languages like Hindi/Urdu for example. That is quite interesting.

Hello I am basque and I am so happy that you speak about our laguage. The basque is unique and really beautiful.

Monica Wiget

Жыл бұрын

From It’s Caucasian “from “ language ?? It’s possible

I just came across this one of your vast array of truly awesome language vids. I LOVE watching your vids, Paul! I'm sorta sad that I only speak two languages ☹️.

It is so cool to see basque being analyzed so deeply and accurately from the prespective of an English speaker.

Amazing video, congrats. I'm not a fan of linguistics but I was so interested in everything you said and it was perfectly explained as well

And now well over a million subscribers. This is a great channel I really enjoyed this video. The Basque language is fascinating.

I'm not a Basque. I'm albanian. Respect for this ancient and unique language. Respect all the unique peoples who have been able to preserve their language and culture during this mess of history.

Modern Life EH

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Faleminderit/mila esker

Amaia Busca

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Thank you so much