Basques speak a language called Euskara, but today only about 25% of the population is fluent in that tongue. Even so, the word for a Basque person, euskaldun, means "possessor of the Basque language.

Perhaps most interesting is the language spoken in the Basque Country, an area in the north-east of Spain in the Pyrenees mountains that borders France. The people there speak Basque, which is a ...