Basque-ing in Bilbao

I’ve not visited the Basque area before so it’s a bag of surprises. My senses are expecting to hear and see a language with some familiarity to other European languages - but Basque (or Euskara) is ‘a language isolate’. It is one of the oldest languages and is believed to one of pre Indo-European dialects that existed in Western Europe before those other languages arrived.

Euskara is also one of the most difficult languages to learn as it is not related to any other language.

Luckily signage is also in Spanish and English as otherwise I’d being doing a lot of Google translate.

‘jatetxe’ (restaurant)
mesedez - please
eskerrik asko - thank youもっと詳しく