Meaning of Basco- | Babel Free

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“The Basque, for example, foreign in origin both to French and Spanish, has indeed been altered through the adoption of a few words and a few locutions borrowed from these languages, by which it is surrounded, and, as it were, invested; but it evermore clings to the basis of its structure, the vital principle of its organism; and a Franco-Basque, or a Basco-Spanish, is not spoken, nowhere has ever been spoken.”

“If to this be added the ‘Euscaratik Erderara Biurtzeco Iztegia,’ or Basco-Spanish dictionary, by the late D. Francisco de Aizquivel, of which two parts have already appeared at Tolosa, and the recent treatise on Basque proper names (‘Los Apellidos Vascongados’) by Irigoyen, there is a good chance for us Castilians to penetrate into the mysteries of a language which is said to be the same that Noah and his sons spoke within the Ark, and has hitherto been, and will most likely continue to be, a puzzle to European philologists.”

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