It is celebrated every year on December 3 World Basque Language Day or Basques. This date was approved in 1948 by the Society for Basque Studies in memory of Saint Francisco Javier – the most successful and famous Christian missionary according to the Catholic Church, who was Basque by origin and said his last words before his death in his native language. This holiday was officially approved in 1995 by the government of the Basque Country and the Royal Academy of the Basque Language, which oversees its preservation.

Basque, along with Castilian, Catalan and Galician, is one of the main languages ​​spoken in modern Spain. The uniqueness of this language lies in the fact that it does not belong to the Indo-European language group, nor to other groups, but forms a separate “family”.

The origin of the Basque language is a mystery, it is not similar to the language of any of the neighboring countries. All this became the reason for putting forward several hypotheses of the origin of euskara. According to one of them, the Basque language is similar to the Georgian language, which is why some world linguists believe that Basque has common roots with the languages ​​of the Caucasus.

The French call the language of their neighbors one of the most difficult on the planet. There is even a saying that the devil himself once studied it, but in 7 years he learned only 3 words and those were wrong.