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Euskara could be considered the foremost symbol of the Basque identity, an ancient language that has survived in the Western Pyrenees while the rest of the country and some nearby provinces, accepted Latin as the dominant language. This only happened over many centuries, of course, but the language has been steadily making a comeback and in pockets of other provinces too, the old languages of Catalán, Asturiano, Gallego, and Aragonés are once more being resurrected and spoken.

The Basque speaking area was once considerably larger than it is today, stretching to the Catalonian Pyrenees in the East, to Burgos and Soria in the South and to the Garona River in the North, and a written form of Basque was first noticed in the 16th century.

Why Euskara (Basque) was Sidelined

The Romance languages, Latin, French and Castilian Spanish, became official languages of the Courts and the Church throughout Europe but the Basque Euskara was sidelined due to its lack of similarity with these. The wars of the 16th century and the reconquest of most of Spain by Isabel and Ferdinand meant that the Pyrenees became a border, with Basques living on one side or the other, some becoming isolated and others assimilated.

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