#Euskal Herria

[beautiful-basque-country]

It's so dreary to see how often on this site many liberal USAmericans reduce fascism in Europe to nazi Germany.

[kropotkindersurprise]

December 8, 2023 - Hundreds of people gathered in Guernica, Basque Country, to form a human flag in solidarity with the Palestinian people, as air raid sirens filled the air. The town of Guernica became symbol and a rallying cry against war crimes and the slaughter of civillians after German and Italian planes bombed the town for Franco's fascists in 1937, during the Spanish civil war, killing hundreds of innocent civillians. [video]

[ireneci]

[deep-down-in-drowsy-town]

There are a LOT of these so I’ll certainly do a part two:)

[fletxerandoliver]

[tired-little-crow]

Euskal Miku! / ¡Miku Vasca! / Basque Miku!

[jackoblantern]

MERRY (late) CHRISTMAS, HANUKKAH, YULE OR WHATEVER YOU CELEBRATE (if you celebrate anything at all)!!!

Today I bring you Alba and Floyd as Mari Domingi and Olentzero, two characters from the Basque Christmas, singing basque Christmas carols (bc Alba/Alf is canon basque and I headcanon Floyd to also be from the Basque Country, like me :D) Also, idk why the quality in the first photos is so bad :"[

(Also, drawing of Dr. Teeth I did for the muppetational may, because he has Olentzero vibes and bc I saw it in a dream).

ESPERO DUT GABON OSO ONAK PASATU IZANA ETA URTE BERRI ONA IZAN, LAGUNAK! :D

[victusinveritas]

Larry Trask, the linguist + Basque expert, felt obliged to put this note at the top of his website!

"But please note: I do not want to hear about the following:

Your latest proof that Basque is related to Iberian / Etruscan / Pictish / Sumerian / Minoan / Tibetan / Isthmus Zapotec / Martian

Your discovery that Basque is the secret key to understanding the Ogam inscriptions / the Phaistos disc / the Easter Island carvings / the Egyptian Book of the Dead / the Qabbala / the prophecies of Nostradamus / your PC manual / the movements of the New York Stock Exchange

Your belief that Basque is the ancestral language of all humankind / a remnant of the speech of lost Atlantis / the language of the vanished civilization of Antarctica / evidence of visitors from Proxima Centauri

I definitely do not want to hear about these scholarly breakthroughs."

[kaishelld]

Jurru Miku!! I saw A LOT of kaxera Miku's soooo i wanted to make a jurru Miku

Vale en plan he visto bien de Mikus vestidas de madera y las amo así que tuve la idea de hacerla jurru

[locaycansada]

Bascore

[utkhowaga]

Casco Viejo, Bilbao-Bilbo, Vizcaya-Bizkaia.

[beautiful-basque-country]

What do you think? https://youtu.be/WW4D-1Sa-r8?si=8peyR-RkNAeYOynL

Kaixo anon!

Somehow I thought somebody would ask me about that video? I watched it yesterday.

I'm suscribed to Linguriosa's channel and have learnt very much from her videos, that are generally well researched and explained.

This one isn't different. She tries to be somehow aseptic and focus on the laws that attacked Galego, Català, and Euskara during the dictatorship without too much assessment or analysis beyond that.

For instance, she says that the first ikastola (school 100% in Basque) was opened in Donosti in 1954 but fails to mention it was actually a clandestine school. She also fails to add context when she says thatin the 60s - the so-called "liberal phase" of the dictatorship" - magazines and records could be edited in Basque.

By that time, 23 years - a whole generation - of repression and punishment and making people ashamed had passed; that thousands of Basque-speakers had left their homes (27,000 to Cuba and +7,000 to France, just in 1937, and we're talking about the registered immigrants; it's calculated that half the people that escaped Spain did it illegaly);

Literally millions of people from the rural communities of Spain moved to the industrial capitals - especially Barcelona and Bilbo -, which made the few Basque speakers remaining not to interact in Basque since maaaaaaaany citizens were now from outside EH and Spanish, even though not over imposed by law as before, was very much imposed by the situation;

This is to say that by the 60s when Franco allegedly changed his mind and was so gracious as to let Basque people have content in our language, Basque was a TINY language on the verge of death. Unimportant. Incidental. Completely safe.

Then I see comments below Linguriosa's video saying something like "I am Basque and I was always taught that Basque was super banned under Franco and now I see that I was fed propaganda" and my heart breaks. Because this is exactly what happens when you fail to give as much context as possible to actually let people understand the whole picture and story.

Because, really, if you know nothing about this and watch the video, you actually get the idea that Franco became more tolerant regarding the minoritized languages in Spain as he got older and what he was actually doing was just laughing at our people: see? you have freedom to use your language now, too bad nobody can speak it anymore!

I'd love to know the takes of my friends @useless-catalanfacts and @jar-jar-ate on this, if they oblige! ^_^

[anniahma]

Windows (2024)

[foerodens]

The Flysch coast of the Basque Country.

If you're interested in photos like this, please make sure to follow me on Instagram too, that's where I'm most active.

[dabid-motozalea]

Donosti 😍

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