Basque is the ancestral language of the Basque people of the Basque Country. The Basque language is one of the most famous languages for being a non-Indo-European language in Europe. Basque “has no known linguistic relatives and is spoken by approximately 720,000 people, mainly in northern Spain and southwestern France”[5]. Also known as the Basque Country. Since Basque has no known linguistic relatives, it is considered a language isolate. Today, numerous dialects of Basque exist depending on the geographical region in which it is spoken. “A standardized form of the Basque language, called Euskara Batua, was developed by the Academy of the Basque Language in the late 1960s”[1]. Basque has many distinctive linguistic features that make Basque different from many Indo-European languages such as German and French. A very internal and distinctive morphological feature of Basque would be the duplication of words. “Duplication in linguistics is a morphological process in which the root or stem of a word (or part of it) or even the entire word is repeated exactly or with a slight change”[8]. We can see the use of duplication in the word “Brista-brista” [8]. Which means walking very fast. We can also see the use of duplication in the word “dar-dar”, which means to tremble[8]. Duplication in Basque can be a total or partial duplication. “Complete duplication implies the duplication of the entire word, while partial duplication implies the duplication of only a part of the word”[8] Duplication is used in many words in Basque, but more than anything it is used in words that they represent sounds and movement. In Basque this is a particular and unique characteristic because it is not seen in the Indo-European language...... middle of paper ......Basque_grammar>.[3]"Basque." Wikipedia. np, Web. 16 January 2014.Lingua_basca>.[4]"The nature of the Basque language." San José State University. np, Web. 16 January 2014..[5]"Basco (euskara)." omniglot. np, Web. 16 January 2014.basque.htm>.[6]Basque language." The World Atlas of Linguistic Structures Online. np, Web. 16 January 2014..[7]"Reduplication." wikipedia. np, Web . 16 January 2014.Reduplication#Complete_and_partial_reduplication>.[8]. University of Zaragoza. np, Web. 16 January. 2014..
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