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Egu, Sun god of ancient Basques. Ziortza Artabe. Labayru Fundazioa Photographic Archive.

Egu, Sun god of ancient Basques. Ziortza Artabe. Labayru Fundazioa Photographic Archive.

Euskaltzaindia, the Academy of the Basque Language, regulated quite some time ago the standard forms for the days of the week: astelehena, asteartea, asteazkena, osteguna, ostirala, larunbata and igandea. Their prescribed equivalents in Bizkaia Basque are likewise well-established: astelehena (also ilena), martitzena, eguaztena, eguena, barikua, zapatua and domeka. And on top of it all, there are innumerable dialectal and subdialectal variants (ortzeguna, ortziralea, egubakoitza, neskaneguna…). (more…)