The Basque separatist group ETA is being blamed for a bombing that killed two policemen in the northern Spanish town of Sangüesa today. Basque nationalists often point to the group’s distinct language ...

ST. JEAN DE LUZ, France — The world is losing languages at an alarming rate, a United Nations agency reported Thursday, with thousands of tongues expected to disappear by the end of this century. Yet ...

BARCELONA, Spain — The discovery of five words inscribed on a 2,000-year-old bronze hand may help rewrite the history of the Basque language, one of Europe’s most mysterious tongues. Investigators in ...

MADRIDMADRID — In a victory for millions of Spaniards who speak a language other than Spanish, the European nation’s Parliament allowed its national legislators to use Catalan, Basque and Galician for ...

People roll out a giant "estelada" or independence flag on top of a building during the Saint Merce celebrations in San Jaume square in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Emilio ...

There are about 7,000 languages spoken on Earth, but half are expected to go extinct by the end of the century, as their last native speakers die off or cultures blur together — so activists are going ...

Spoken in small parts of northern Spain and France, Basque is one of the most interesting languages in the world because ...

OAKLAND — It’s a long way from Spain’s Basque Country to Oakland, but that’s just one leg of the journey traveled by former Dimond District resident Martin Zabaleta. Zabaleta’s stops along the way ...

In this undated photo provided by Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi, a flat piece of bronze shaped like a human handis displayed in the Navarra region. Investigators in northern Spain believe they have ...