ALAN SANDRY.
Swansea University (Wales/Cymru).
The Welsh language – Cymraeg – is generally believed to be the second oldest existing language in Europe, after Basque, with its origins going back at least 3000 years. At its height it was spoken by people in Wales, western areas of England, Cumbria (Lake District) and the south of Scotland; Edinburgh and Glasgow were Welsh-speaking...
XABIER IRUJO.
Historian. University of Nevada, Center for Basque Studies.
Abstract:
In this article, the historian Xabier Irujo elaborates on a number of Basque independence proclamations since the times of the French Revolution to our days.
In 1789, for one, the Estates-General of Navarre, reunited in Donibane Garazi, outlined clearly that Navarre was not part of the kingdoms of Castile or France, emphasizing...
SHONA McALPINE.
Spokesperson ICEC Scotland.
The Gaelic language is quite linguistically distinct from English. It is a Celtic language with a close relationship to Irish Gaelic and Welsh. It was the main language in much of rural Scotland until the start of the 17th century. With the Union of the Crowns in 1603 when Scotland remained an independent state but with...
ELIN HAF GRUFFYDD JONES.
Prifysgol Cymru-University of Wales.
ELEN President (https://elen.ngo/).
The NAZIOGINTZA group wants to make known the linguistic struggle of other stateless nations like ours. To this end, we will analyze other models through a series of articles that we begin today. We will show you the cases of Wales, Catalonia, Quebec and Flanders.
In this first article written for NAZIOGINTZA...
MIKEL URKOLA ELIZEGI
In 1966 the UN proclaimed two Covenants of great international importance: a) the one referring to Civil and Political Rights, containing 53 articles; and b) the one that sets the Economic, Social and Cultural rights, which has 31 articles. In 1977, Spain accepted these two international agreements and the then Spanish King Juan Carlos signed them. These...
EDURNE ALEGRIA AIERDI.
Some considerations occur to me following the article published in the BERRIA newspaper on September 11 by Iraitz Lazkano, President of the Association of Basque City Councils (UEMA), titled “Herritar gehiago, euskara gehiago” (“More citizens, more Basque Language”) (https://www.berria.eus/paperekoa/1876/021/001/2021-09-11/herritar-gehiago-euskara-gehiago.htm).
Mr. Lazkano wants to show that immigration does not harm the Basque language, as some are claiming.
Leaving aside a...
JOSE INAZIO LOPEZ DE LUZURIAGA
Musicologist. Retired professor of the Conservatory of Donostia-San Sebastian.
Although in this article the author refers to music, it is obvious that this analysis is also useful for other cultural manifestations, be they sports, artistic or poetic.
DEFINITION OF CULTURE AND MUSIC
All definition provides a description of a methodological purpose, it is somehow programmatic, and in our...
DERWICH M. FERHO.
President of the Kurdish Institute of Brussels.
Derwich M. Ferho is president of the Kurdish Institute, movement for human and people rights in Brussels. Derwich was born in 1961, in a small Kurdish village near Midyat in Turkey. At the age of 17, he was forced to flee his hometown. The reason was a protest he organized for...
ANDONI SARRIEGI ESKISABEL.
Abstract:
The author of the article and our collaborator Mr Andoni Sarriegi bases the calculus of Basque language use in the town of Beasain (Gipuzkoa, Basque Country) on a mathematical model.
This mathematical model, a major contribution of Basque sociolinguistics, was developed by a number of University of the Basque Country professors during the 90s of the 20th century,...
EDURNE ALEGRIA AIERDI.
Abstract:
Edurne Alegria outlines in this collaboration the main ideas of the 2010 book Autopsiarako frogak (“Evidence for the autopsy”) written by author Koldo Izagirre.
In the work, Koldo Izagirre considers Basque language a living creature, but reminds us that it is on the brink of death, explaining the details for that death, which come down to historic, political,...
