Vicent Partal
24-03-2025, VILAWEB.
Abstract:
In this article of the Catalan digital Vilaweb, its director Vicent Partal denounces the imposition of the Spanish flag in the Catalan town halls. Specifically, the city council of Verges has been reprimanded for not placing on the facade of the town hall the Spanish flag.
A flag is a symbol with a strong emotional charge for the...
Welshman Robin Farrar (Bangor, Wales, 1985) lives among us, in the village of Bidarrai, in Lower Navarre. He came to the Basque Country in 2023, to improve his knowledge of the Basque language, and lives as a Basque in this beautiful corner of the Northern Basque Country, having adopted the local accent and way of speaking. His job (he...
Patxi Saez Beloki
2-4-2025, ARGIA.
Abstract:
There are some dances in the Basque Country in which a wineskin is mercilessly beaten. The author of the article associates this wineskin with the Basque language, which has been under attack in recent times from different political, economic and judicial spheres.
The president of the most important bank in the Basque Country recently declared that the...
DAVID VALLS
Linguist and Catalan teacher.
Abstract:
In this article, Catalan linguist David Valls analyses the data from the latest Catalan sociolinguistic survey, published at the beginning of 2025. These are worrying data, exhibiting a continuous decline in the use of Catalan. Mr. Valls analyses the causes and proposes solutions to reverse this situation.
Catalan is still the most widely used stateless language...