#basque people

[beautiful-basque-country]

If only mendigoizaleak were more popular to wear as everyday clothes!

Mendigoizale means “mountain enthusiast”. It’s a traditional wool jacket with drawings on the front depicting lauburus or the coats of arms of the seven Basque provinces (Nafarroa and Nafarroa Beherea are represented by the same coat of arms, hence they're just 6). It’s closed with six pompoms. It seems that they were originally called “draughts jackets” because the front had a draughtboard pattern. But in the early 20th century that pattern was replaced by the coats of arms and Basque symbols by clubs and amateur mountain climbers that were reclaiming traditional clothing as also a symbol of Basque identity; thus the name mendigoizale spread, because it was these mountaineers who were wearing them again.

What do you think? Do you like mendigoizaleak or not?

#euskal herria #basque country #pays basque #pais vasco #euskadi #mendigoizale #traditional clothing #tradition #culture #folklore #basque people

[proflambeovt]

MerMay 2022, Ethnic.

Took inspiration from the Basque people for this one. They’re a people with a long and storied history originating in Southwest Europe, particularly around the Pyrenees in Spain and France. Outside of Europe, the largest North American community is in Boise, Idaho. My mother has an uncle who’s Basque, so there’s a personal connection on my part.

#characterdesign #illustration #art #artwork #digitalart #cartoon #drawing #characterart #fantasyart #painting #digitaldrawing #digitalillustration #mermaid #ethnic #basque people #basque country #mermay challenge #mermay 2022 #mermay #artist on tumblr #art challenge

[wixohere]

Basque-Icelandic Pidgin

The fact that Basque whale-hunters developed a pidging (a mixed language) just to be able to work around Icelandic waters is amazing. It’s crazy to think that humans have the ability to communicate despite the fact they are from completely different backgrounds and cultures is amazing.

#iceland #basque #basque people #language #pidgin #culture #random facts

[useless-catalanfacts]

Sweden saying they'll vote against allowing the use of Catalan, Basque and Galician in the European Union Parliament because "there's lots of minority languages and we can't allow them all" is so funny because CATALAN HAS MORE SPEAKERS THAN SWEDISH

Catalan is the 13th most spoken language in the EU. It has more than 10 million speakers, which means it has more speakers than other languages that are already official EU languages like Maltese (530,000), Estonian (1.2 million), Latvian (1.5 million), Irish (1.6 million), Slovene (2.5 million), Lithuanian (3 million), Slovak (5 million), Finnish (5.8 million), Danish (6 million), Swedish (10 million), and Bulgarian (10 million).

Neither Galician (3 million) nor Basque (750,000) would still be the least spoken languages to be allowed in the EU representative bodies.

But even if any of them did, so what? Why do speakers of smaller languages deserve less rights than those of bigger languages? How are we supposed to feel represented by the EU Parliament when our representatives aren't even allowed to speak our language, but the dominant groups can speak theirs?

It all comes down to the hatred of language/cultural diversity and the belief that it's an inconvenience, that only the languages of independent countries have any kind of value while the rest should be killed off. After all, isn't that what Sweden has been trying to do to the indigenous Sami people for centuries?

#actualitat #sweden #languages #catalan #basque #galician #sami #saami #europe #european politics #european union #language #langblr #eu #minority languages #minoritized languages #minorities #national minorities #stateless peoples #imperialism

[2021131192021]

The twins visiting Basque Country cause it's currently Bayonne's festivity hehe

#megaman battle network #rockman exe #mmbn #netto hikari #lan hikari #saito hikari #hub hikari #my art #basque country #I'm Basque for people who ask

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

this week, in the spanish singing program operación triunfo, they sung escriurem, a song by catalan singer miki núñez - more specifically, they sung the version of the song he did with basque singer izaro, in catalan and euskera.

in operación triunfo it was sung by chiara, who is from menorca and thus speaks the menorquín dialect, very different from miki's barcelonese one (i don't speak catalan and still noticed the changes from the original to chiara's one); and martin, from the metropolitan area of bilbo (specifically getxo). for what i've seen people comment, his town doesn't really have many basque speakers, and his dialect is the one they learn at school, the most neutral one. izaro is from gipuzkoa (more specifically from mallabia) so i imagine they have different dialects as well, i haven't listened enough to the bilingual version to really get the differences but i'm sure a more trained ear will be able to do so!

anyways, here's them performing the song at the academy, unfortunately the gala performances are only uploaded to prime video:

#linguistics #catalan #basque #euskera #languages #i know there's a lot of lamguage nerds (like myself) here so i thought you would like this! #i've listened to escriurem a lot but not really the version with izaro. i should do it more #izaro is my favourite basque singer btw she's sooo #they were good at the gala as well btw!!! and miki appeared after the performance crying and everything #cause escriurem is like the unofficial anthem of the program #miki was also in OT and escriurem is about all the contestants in his edition and how close they are and the experience #and now that it has been sung in another edition it has turned into something bigger #even the presenter who participated in the first edition of the contest cried and dedicated the song to her people - more importantly to on #of them who passed away recently #very very emotional stuff #Youtube

[hametsukaishi]

I'm a bit late for this, but this week is still the globak strike week for Palestine so,

The 20/01 was the Day of San Sebastian in one of the cities: Donostia, the most important holiday of all year. And people took the oportunity to stand for Palestine. And I'm so tired of this already, that I have nothing left to say. But you must know. We haven't give up. We haven't forgot you. We are still here with you, even if we are miles apart. Palestine is in the heart of a diminute citie by the sea.

#the quality is shitty in some pics but it was ass am people was wasted. #in the video provided by Etb1 you can actually see the way people stood with their flags #dont stop talking about palestine #gaza #palestine #free gaza #free palestine #basque country

[fayegonnaslay]

Beautiful Babe Paley: The People's Swan <3

1 & 2: Babe Paley (and Husband Bill) photographed by Slim Aarons at their vacation home in Jamaica, in 1959.

3. Babe and Bill Paley on their wedding day, 1947.

4. Babe Paley style (featured outside of La Cóte Basque with Bill)

5 & 6. Babe and Truman Capote vacationing at the Paley's home in Round Tree Jamaica.

#babe paley #barbara cushing mortimer paley #style icon #swan #swans of fifth avenue #fifth avenue five am #feud #feud capote vs the swans #truman capote #cbs #the peoples princess #naomi watts #breakfast at tiffany's #answered prayers #la cote basque #slim aarons #slim keith #gloria guiness #c. z. guest #lee radziwill #marella agnelli #gloria vanderbilt #ann woodward #capote and his swans #vintage glamour

[javiroa226]

Vitoria-Gasteiz, my city

#black and white #monocrome #urban landscape #street photo #people #posters #Vitoria-Gasteiz #Euskadi #Basque Country #Javi Roa

[narratorstragedy]

will people stop calling languages “strange” just because they are different from the ones you speak. please

#guy in a video like 'let's check out some STRANGE basque words' like ofhhjshkfdjhdf oy #when will people be normal #she speaks.l #<- the 'strange word' was ikastola.

[beautiful-basque-country]

#euskal herria #basque country #pays basque #pais vasco #euskadi #basque people #Poll

[dougielombax]

What?

No it’s nothing.

Just flags of stateless and unrepresented peoples and nations, that’s all.

I’ll include a few others in future.

Feel free to reblog.

1. Assyrians.

2. Kurds

3. Tibetans

4. Circassians

5. Basques

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #flags #vexillology #unrepresented #indigenous #political crap #Assyria #kurdistan #tibet #Circassians #basque country #bethnahrin #indigenous people #stateless #feel free to reblog

[divinum-pacis]

The Tomborrada drum parade on Jan. 20, 2024, in San Sebastián, Spain. The Basque people of Spain’s northeastern coast celebrate the city’s patron saint, Sebastian — a third century martyr — with an annual 24-hour drum parade with hundreds of participants. (RNS reader submitted photo by John Schmidt)

#religion #christianity #basque #christians #people #st sebastian #spain #divinum-pacis

[hahahax30]

Ik the new Disney princess is going to have me wanting to bang my head against the wall

#like her being spanish is making my head hurt #because people are tryng to justify it by being historically incorrect #aka 'oh al andalus was african-ruled for 8 centuries so it makes sense that she's black' #like honey no al andalus was ruled by the ancestors of current spanish people #the rulers specifically were really pale because they were children of basque slaves #the last andalusi monarch was blond and blue-eyed and so were many of the most important andalusi monarchs #there were more Slavic people in al andalus than black people #ffs the princess can be black it's fantasy but don't use a falsified version of history to justify that choice lol #and this isn't to say the movie can't be beautiful but it clearly lacks the cultural rigour and care disney used for their more recent works

[thibautfleuretonline]

Marché (Guernica, Espagne)

#guernica #guernika-lumo #pays basque #euskadi #país vasco #espagne #spain #travel #voyage #photographie #travel photography #photography #photographie de voyage #noir et blanc #black and white #travel europe #voyage en europe #people #people of the world #photographers on tumblr

[postcard-from-the-past]

Basque people

French vintage postcard

#carte postale #old #ansichtskarte #photo #vintage #postkaart #photography #briefkaart #postkarte #french #ephemera #postcard #sepia #people #postal #tarjeta #basque #historic