Basque family
Basque
c. 500 CE – today Living
Basque (c. 500 CE – today) is a living language. Lineage: Proto-Basque → Aquitanian → Basque.
See Basque on the interactive map- Speakers
- 800K (800,000)
- ISO 639-3
- eus
- Glottocode
- basq1248
Covers Old Common Basque (~5th–6th century), from which the modern dialects descend, through Modern Basque and the Batua standard (1968). Speaker count includes L2 speakers.
Lineage
- Proto-Basquec. 1,000 BCE – 100 BCE
- Aquitanianc. 100 BCE – 500 CE
- Basquec. 500 CE – today