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 North American Basque Organizations
  A federation of organizations to sustain BASQUE culture
 
 


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  Izan ziralako, gara, eta garalako izango dira  
"Because they were, we are, and because we are they will be"
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Feliz Navidad y
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ño Nuevo!

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EUSKARAREN NAZIOARTEKO EGUNA
"International Day of Basque"

Once a year there is day set aside for the celebration of Euskara--the Basque language.  Officially Dec. 3rd it is rotated here depending on what community is hosting the event.  The aim is to promote the expansion and use of the Basque language. 

Related links: Previous celebrations:
All Euskara links page
Benito Lertxundi's Euskararen Eguna song

Xabier Irujo:  Origins of Euskararen Eguna
Benito Lertxundi's Euskararen Eguna song
Euskararen Eguna 2008 in SLC
Euskararen Eguna 2007 in Chino
Euskararen Eguna 2007 in San Francisco
Euskararen Eguna 2006 in San Francisco
Elkarlan
Partnership
Message from NABO Euskara Coordinator:
"Euskararen eguna dela eta AEBetako euskara ikasleek hainbat ekjintza egingo dituzte. Leku batzuetan afaria euskaraz egin eta euskal kantak abestuko dituzte. Beste leku batzuetan euskeraz patata-tortilla egingo dute. Beste batzuetan herr desberdinetako. Ikasleak elkartu eta euskara klasea egingo dute eta gero afaria.  Hemen daude Boiseko 3. Urteko euskara ikasleak aurten Ulibarriko euslkaltegiko ikasleekin euskaraz komunikatzen direnak Moodlen bitartez."  Gero arte.
~Izaskun Kortazar, Euskara koordinatzailea  izaskunkortazar@gmail.com

The first celebration of Euskararen Eguna was in 1949 when various Basque organizations around the world inaugurated the event.  The celebration was formalized in 1995 at the World Basque Congress of Basque Collectives along with the Autonomous Basque Government of Euskadi and the Basque language academy Euskaltzaindia.     

Euskararen Nazioarteko Eguna

Over the last few years, N.A.B.O. has commemorated this day in conjunction with our annual Euskara instructor's workshop (links above).  Individual member organizations also mark this event. 

The date of Dec. 3rd is based on the feast of the Basque St. Francis Xabier (1506-52) who as a Christian missionary traveled to Asia, putting into practice what Bernard Etxepare, the author of the first book in Euskara (1545), declared: "Heuscara ialgui adi mundura" "Basque, go out into the world."

  "All languages are used all hours and days of the years. That's certain, but what is also clear is that not all languages find themselves in the same circumstances: some have multitudes of speakers and others few; some are vigorous and growing while others are not.  There are also some languages, that against the odds, have somehow endured across the millennia.  That is why we celebrate every December 3rd the International Day of Euskara."

-Lehendakari Juan Jose Ibarretxe
Former President of the Autonomous Basque Government
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"Hizkuntza bat ez da galtzen,
ez dakitenek ikasten ez dutelako,
dakitenek hitz egiten ez dutelako baizik.” 
~Joxean Artze


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Efforts to promote the Basque language include sponsored walks such as www.ibilaldia.com


 

 

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