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BASQUEISMS III: Basque substrate of Spanish around Bilbao

Lexicon We have left the lexicon for the end of this trilogy. The transmission of lexicon is very interesting between languages in contact. Three types of words can be distinguished. Firstly, there would be words that are not in the receiving language and that are taken from the sending language. In this case, certain names

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BASQUEISMS II: Basque substrate of Spanish around Bilbao

In the first section of the article entitled Euskarakadak we talked about phonetic issues, while in this second, we will focus on the area of syntax. To get an idea of what we are going to talk about, it would be enough to remember how the character Koldo Zugasti (the actor Karra Elejalde) spoke in the

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BASQUEISMS I Basque substrate of Spanish around Bilbao

The Basque language or Euskara, at least from what we know, is a small language in terms of the number of speakers and the area of use, but it has had to live alongside great languages throughout its long history. He had Celtic and Iberian as neighbors until Romans brought their imperial language to our

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