There is a channel of a Finnish woman who lives in Spain, her channel is called sini and in one of her videos she said that phonetically Basque was very similar to Finnish I told her that after almost 200 years of Visigothic rule something had been copied from us although I think that the Basque country was never taken over by the Visigoths.
It has a lot of similarites with the Iberian language too. Unfortunately it's a dead language with no connections to latin, like the basque language. Makes it difficult to crack the language code.
You may find interesting that Castillian Spanish was born in an area spanning the current Burgos, Vizcaya and Álava provinces, that is, the origin of Castillian Spanish is the romance language spoken by Basque-speaking populations. This is why the phonetics of Castillian Spanish is so much simpler (or archaic) than that of other peninsular romance languages (such as Catalan or Galician). All those neutral vowels are impossible to pronounce for a true Castillian speaker (and proud of it 😅). Essentially and ironically, considering much later language wars, "castellano" was invented by Basques.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZIESNlS6fH4.htmlsi=O3FSQl9x0y8ab8Qs San Millán de cogolla youre referring to.. very interesting..one one thing that the language was born in valladolid or something but no.. in the greater basque region
@@AdventureElliot Absolutely, you know the story. First scripts in castellano and euskera on the margins of a medieval manuscript kept in a remote La Rioja monastery. But you speak Andalusian, you are a much more sophisticated speaker than us, northerners.
Looks like you'll have to cross the Pyrenees and come visit Iparretarrak now, can't forget the 3 other provinces from our Basque Country/Euskal Herri 👀
The Basque mystery is the Pyrenean mountain range or Pyrenees that acted as a genetic reservoir 10,000 years ago or more, just like the Caucasus mountains. 25,000 years ago, all of northern Europe was ice
@@El_Carrito_del_Helao In that area, the oldest currently contrasted are the Mesolithic hunters dating from 10,000 years ago and later the Basques dating from 7,000 years ago.
En cualquier momento uno esperaba ver volar a Danaerys Targaryen a lomos de Drogon o aparecer una patrulla de jinetes dortrakis pues estabas en la isla de Rocadragon sin permiso.
Basque language isn't indoeuropean , basque is preindoeuropea like iberian language, but this is a death language. Basques are iberians. Basque are Spanish with less genetic contribution from romans and muslims. The mountains and the forest have kept one treasure for Europe.
I drove from Algeciras thru San Sebastián via Spain's coldest city of Burgos Spaniards are friendlier but France nature wins. If you crossed over to the French border, spent a night in Bordeaux then resumed driving up north to the magical city of Vannes then the Brittany region you would have forgotten about Spain 😀
Sorry but Spain is better, in almost all😃. France only have European Continental Nature & Meditrraneam in the S. West. Spain has that and much more i.e. Continental, Meditrranean, Cantabrian-Atlantic, Plateau, All Types of Forest, Mountains & High Mountains (being one of the most mountains countries in Europe), Snow, The Best Beaches of Europe, Archipelagos & Paradisiacal Islands, even Deserts, Subtropical Forest & Volcanoes, etc...etc... Spain has the Climate, Geography, Nature and landscapes with the greatest Diversity and Biodiversity in All Europe, So.... Spain nature wins.
my ancestors too. But That was 5 generations ago. I have very little Spanish/Basque blood now. I wanna see the small village in Alava, Samaniego (it’s on the top of my bucket list). At least that is where my surname originated. My granpa is from another city
Actually the only two regions in Spain which had an industrial revolution (19th century) were the Basque country and Catalonia. The rest of Spain was kept in a semi-feudal state relying on agriculture, due to large tracts of land belonging to the nobility. There has never been any land reform in Spain (as there was in England, which is why England in divided into so many small plots that you can see from a plane) which is why large tracts of land in Spain continue to belong to the same noble families. This is also why so many small towns and villages all over Spain have emptied as agricultural mechanization has overtaken manual labour, and of course when we joined the European Union it put an end to small farrms due to animal quotas, etc.
Yes.. And better infrastructure as well. It's actually more of a active place.. If you're retired and like hiking and outdoors and peace then yes it's perfect for you.. You'll see in the next video
