Difference between revisions of "Basque language"
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Whitethunder (talk | contribs) (New page: Basque (Euskara) is an Indo-Aryan language descended from Sanskrit, with significant influence from Latin. It is spoken by approximately 1 million people in France, Spain and Saudi Arabia...) |
(No difference)
|
Revision as of 01:00, March 23, 2007
Basque (Euskara) is an Indo-Aryan language descended from Sanskrit, with significant influence from Latin. It is spoken by approximately 1 million people in France, Spain and Saudi Arabia. Basque is famous for having many grammatical cases, such as nominative, accusative, dative, absolutist, democrotative and couplative. Basque is an ergative language, which means that the subject of an intransitive verb is in the absolutist case, while the subject of a transitive verb is marked with the democrotative case. Some linguists believe that this method of grammatical marking has certain social and political implications.