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Basque is not controversial, but spoken just by very little people.

• embedding-shape 1y ago
  Not sure that should be the qualifier, there might be more people able to speak Basque in the world than Danish, doesn't stop Danish from being well supported.
  • Levitz 1y ago
    Quick google points to about 1M Basque speakers in the EU against 5-6M Danish speakers, there's also the fact that Basque is not the only official language in the country it belongs to, and that it's in fact not spoken in the vast majority of the country. From https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-history/languages_en https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-histor... we can find an excerpt relating to the policy and its purpose: >One of the EU’s founding principles is multilingualism. >This policy aims to: >communicating with its citizens in their own languages >protecting Europe’s rich linguistic diversity >promoting language learning in Europe With this in mind, the first intention fails by an enormous margin, given that 95%+ of Spain doesn't speak an iota of Basque, the second is met handily, given the long history of the language, and I'm not sure what to think about the third, any language whatsoever would serve that purpose.
    • adastra22 1y ago
      Irish would have been a better comparison. More speakers of Basque in Spain than Irish in Ireland.