Basques

Basques
Euskaldunak

1st row: Arista - Sancho III - Elcano - Loyola - Urdaneta - Oñate - Francesco Saverio 2nt row: Bolívar - Zumalakarregi - Gardoqui- Garat - Iraola - Arana - Errázuriz 3rd row: Garrastazu - Ravel - Evita - Atano VII - Basterretxea - Guevara -Mariano 4t row: Etxenike - Garamendi - Ibarretxe - Eyharts - Chao - Fernandez - Arteta
Tot population
approx. 2.6 million in Spain an Fraunce
Regions wi signeeficant populations
Spain	2,359,400[1]
Basque Kintra	1,850,500[1]
Álava	279,000
Biscay	1,160,000
Gipuzkoa	684,000
Navarre	508,900[1]
Fraunce	230,200[1]
Labourd	225,000
Lawer Navarre	40,000
Soule	20,000
Argentinae	3.5 million[2][3]
Chile	1.7 - 4.5 million[4][5] [6] [7] [8]
Cuba	1.5 million[9]
Brazil	uncertain
Ecuador	uncertain
Mexico	uncertain
Philippines	uncertain
Colombie	60,000[10]
Unitit States	uncertain
Uruguay	102.200
Costa Rica	9,800[11]
Venezuela	5,500[12]
Bolivie	uncertain
Peru	uncertain
Leids
Basque - few monoglots Spaingie - 1,525,000 monoglots French - 150,000 monoglots Basque-Spaingie - 600,000 speakers Basque-French - 76,000 speakers
Releegion
Roman Catholicism, Atheism, Agnosticism

The Basques (Basque: euskaldunak, Spaingie: vascos, French: basques) as an ethnic group primarily inhabit an aurie traditionally kent as the Basque Kintra (Basque: Euskal Herria), a region that is locatit aroond the wastren end o the Pyrenees on the coast o the Bay o Biscay an straddles pairts o north-eastren Spain an sooth-wastren Fraunce.

The Basques are kent in the local leids as:

• Euskaldunak ("Basque speakers", uised loosely tae descrive aw ethnic Basques), euskal herritarrak ("natives o the Basque Kintra") or euskotarrak ("natives of the Basque Kintra", an aften mentioned but rarely uised neologism) in Basque
• Vascos in Spaingie
• Basques in French
• Bascos in Gascon

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} IV. Inkesta Soziolinguistikoa Gobierno Vasco, Servicio Central de Publicaciones del Gobierno Vasco 2008, ISBN 978-84-457-2775-1
2. ↑ "::: Euskonews & Media ::: Kosmopolita ::: Los nuevos vascos (I de II)". Euskonews.com. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
3. ↑ "La inmigración vasca en la Argentina". Juandegaray.org.ar. Archived frae the original on 12 Januar 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
4. ↑ Mikel Soro/ (1 December 1997). "Diariovasco". Diariovasco. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
5. ↑ "entrevista al Presidente de la Cámara vasca". Deia.com. 22 Mey 2008. Archived frae the original on 15 August 2011. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
6. ↑ vascos Ainara Madariaga: Autora del estudio "Imaginarios vascos desde Chile La construcción de imaginarios vascos en Chile durante el siglo XX".
7. ↑ "Basques au Chili". Euskonews.com. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
8. ↑ Contacto Interlingüístico e intercultural en el mundo hispano. Instituto valenciano de lenguas y culturas, University of Valencia, citation: "Un 20% de la población chilena tiene su origen en el País Vasco".
9. ↑ "Vascos en Cuba" (PDF). Retrieved 22 August 2010.
10. ↑ "Vascos en Colombia". Archived frae the original (PDF) on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
11. ↑ Joshua Project. "Ethnic groups - Costa Rica". Joshuaproject.net. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
12. ↑ Joshua Project. "Ethnic groups - Venezuela". Joshuaproject.net. Retrieved 22 August 2010.