The perennial issue of Basque history—who is or is not a Basque— obscures the boundaries of pre-Roman Basqueland. The Romans referred to a people whom they called Vascones, from …

These facts and others are shared on the following pages in a chronological review of some, but by no means all, of the involvement and accomplishments of Basques in the exploration, …

To contextualize this work, a historical tour of the Basque presence in the United States, particularly from the nineteenth century onward, will be conducted.

The results of this are exemplified by a well-known Basque etymologist who proposes, for example, that Basque esne ‘milk’ is derived from behi ‘cow’ + semi ‘son’ + edabe ‘drink’ (!).

Introduction; Orthography and Pronunciation; the Basque Noun Phrase 1.1 Basque Dialects and Euskara Batua 1 1 1.2 Spelling and Pronunciation 4 1.3 Introducing the Basque Noun Phrase …

For my part, since I am not Basque by birth, and have acquired all I know of the language almost exclusively from books, I am placed in the position of one whose point of view is comparative …

“Do we ever say that we are Spanish or French? We answer, I am Basque,... nothing else. And a time will come (..) when the Basque nation, free, happy, and independent, will be …