Basque Bible / Elizen Arteko Biblia / Basque (native name: Euskara) is the language spoken by the Basque people who inhabit the Basque Country, a region spanning an area in north-eastern Spain and south-western France [Hardcover]

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Publication Date: 2002

Title: Basque Bible / Elizen Arteko Biblia / Basque (native name: Euskara) is the language spoken by the Basque people who inhabit the Basque Country, a region spanning an area in north-eastern Spain and south-western France Binding: Hardcover Publication date: 2002 It is spoken by approximately a third of the Basques, with its stronghold in the contiguous area from central Biscay through Gipuzkoa, northern Navarre and parts of Labourd to sparsely populated Lower Navarre and Soule. Until reintroduced into the education system, it had not been spoken in most of Álava, in western Biscay, or in the southern half of Navarre in the recent past. Out of a total of nearly 3,000,000 Basques, it is estimated that some 1,063,000 speak Basque in which 632,000 are native speakers. Approximately 566,000 of the latter live in the Spanish Basque country, with the rest residing in the French part. A standardised form of the Basque language called Batua was created at the end of the 20th century. This standard is mainly used in the Spanish Basque country, and to a lesser extent in the Northern Basque Country due to the limited availability of schools teaching in Basque or offering it as a subject. Apart from this standardised version, there are six main Basque dialects, comprising Bizkaian, Gipuzkoan, and Upper Navarrese (in Spain), and Lower Navarrese, Lapurdian, and Zuberoan (in France). However, the dialect boundaries are not congruent with political boundaries.

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• Hardcover
• Publisher: Bible Society (2002)
• Language: Basque
• ASIN: B002E640KY
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
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The Bible in Basque
By Jacques Bellay

In 1571 Joannes Leizarrga, a Catholic priest from Zuberoa, joined the Protestant Reform movement and undertook the translation of the New Testament into Basque for the first time. The Roman Church set their sights on the task in 1740 when Haraneder produced his translation of the New Testament. More recently, in 1976 the abbot Kerexeta translated the Bible into Bizkaian.

Meanwhile, a new ecumenical translation of the Bible into Basque has appeared in bookstores under the title Elizen Arteko Biblia, published by the Sociedades B¡blicas Unidas, an organization that includes both Protestants and Catholics in the Basque Country.

This book is sturdily bound and contains all sorts of interesting information at the end of the volume, such as twenty pages of interdialectical vocabulary, thirty pages of Biblical dictionary, a subject index, plus maps and a timetable of Biblical history compared with general history of the period.