Basque is a language isolate: it belongs to no known language family and predates the arrival of Indo-European languages in western Europe. Its speakers call it Euskara. The language is spoken in the Basque Country, which straddles the border between northern Spain and south-western France, and it holds co-official status in Spain's Basque Autonomous Community and in parts of Navarre; in France it has no official standing. Around three quarters of a million people speak it, nearly all bilingual in Spanish or French. Traditional dialects include Biscayan, Gipuzkoan and Souletin, and a unified standard, Euskara Batua, was developed from the 1960s and now anchors education and broadcasting. Basque-medium schooling has raised the number of younger speakers markedly since the 1980s. The language is written in the Latin alphabet.
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