Sunday, September 2, 2012

Euskal Herria ( Pais Vasco ), Spain

A card from the Basque Country , the autonomous community in northern Spain :)
Basque people live in northern Spain & southern France but they are proudly refer to themselves primarily  as "Euskaldunak"and not as Spaniards or French ! While their language is considered an "genetic language isolate" not having any relation with their neighbouring Latin derived languages or any other Indo-European language , so are the people who are thought to be remnants of the tribes that were living in Europe before the Indo-Europeans came in . I know so little about these proud people and I really hope that I will visit there one day ! Until then I have this card to a have look at a normal Basque day :) Also I'm very interested in their language and I hope I can learn a bit :)

here you are some expressions in Euskera with their equivalent in Castellano ( Spanish )
EUSKARA                     CASTELLA NO
Egun on!                           Buenos días
Arratsalde on!                   Buenas tardes
Gabon! / Gau on!              Buenas noches
Eskerrik asko!                  Muchas gracias
Mila ezker!                       Mil gracias
Ez horregaitik!                  De nada
Agur!                                Adios
Gero arte!                       Hasta luego
Ikusi arte!                        Hasta la vista
Bihar arte!                      Haste mañana
Kaixo!                            Hola
On egin!                        Que aproveche


So Eskerrik asko to Dani for the card :)

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