Meaning of bascophone | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Speaking the Basque language.
   not-comparable, usually
2. Alternative letter-case form of Bascophone.
   alt-of, not-comparable, usually

Examples

“EUZKO GOGOA. […] The works of many of the leading bascophone authors of the day appeared in this journal.”

“His own involvement into collaborationalism is remote, limited to wild enthusiasm when meeting German bascophone linguists.”

“The 1978 legislative elections are sometimes seen as the first time that Basque nationalism was connected with the so-called ethnic vote, as the Basque-speaking zones of the inland attained higher scores than French-speaking areas (Vrignon 1999: 224). Indeed, roughly speaking, 6 per cent of votes in the francophone urban area of Bayonne–Anglet–Biarritz were cast in support of the nationalist parties during the cantonal elections of 1998–2001, as opposed to almost 15 percent in the Euskera-speaking interior (Table 5.1). A closer look on Table 5.1, however, puts this image into perspective because in the interior the highest nationalist votes were cast not in the most bascophone areas, but in the interior of Labourd.”

“The law divides the community into three specific areas: the bascophone, or Basque speaking, zone, the mixed zone and the non-bascophone, or non-Basque speaking, zone (see Figure 1). […] The Basque language is recognised as an official language only in the so-called ‘bascophone’ zone, where 10.8% of the total population lives. […] In public life, the law recognises that the inhabitants of the bascophone zone have the right to use the Basque language in their dealings with the administration.”

“On the other hand, Basque-related circles claim that official use of euskara as the institutional framework would right a democratic deficit and a social injustice. They are not demanding a return to an exclusively bascophone Basque country.”

“Through unyielding commitment and strategizing, the proponents of the IM eventually expanded beyond the realm of bascophone preschooling and embarked on the running of bilingual primary schools by 1974.”

“The capital of Álava, Vitoria is the largest and least Bascophone of the three Basque provinces and the seat of the autonomous Basque government.”

“This determines to a significant degree the level of commitment to push for normalization and the level of tolerance of non-Bascophone speakers in allowing Euskera to penetrate into areas that traditionally have not been Bascophone.”

“According to the Euskarari Buruzko Foru Legea (1986) (Foral Law of the Basque language) three linguistic areas are distinguished in Nafarroa: the Bascophone area in the North, the non-Bascophone area in the South and the mixed area which includes the central area of Nafarroa and its capital city.”

“There are no precise statistical figures for the regional and local distribution of the Bascophone population at the beginning of the twentieth century, but due to the massive language-desertion by the locals and the waves of immigration into the new industrial areas it can be taken for granted that in Bilbao and its industrial hinterland Euskara had been reduced to an absolutely marginal and residual position. […] According to [Louis-Lucien] Bonaparte’s figures of the 1860s and the updated version presented by [Ladislao de] Velasco at the end of the 1870s, more than a half of all Spanish and French Basques were euskaldunak, that is, Bascophone.”

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