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Basque (Euskara, Euskera, Eskuara, or Eskwara) months
urtarrila (January) New Year month or black month
otsaila (February) bull or wolf month
martxoa (March) tepid month
apirila (April) weeding or fasting-bread month
maiatza (May) leaf month
ekaina (June) seed-time, bean or barley month
uztaila (July) harvest or wheat month
abuztua, abustua (August) month of drought
iraila (September) fern or ear month
urria (October) gathering month
azaroa (November) sowing month or harvest month
abendua (December) binding up of vegetation(?)

The months refer throughout to the vegetation and to agriculture (p. 283-284).


—From Primitive Time-Reckoning, A Study in the Origins
and First Development of the Art of Counting Time among the Primitive and Early Culture Peoples;
by Martin P. Nilsson, professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History in the
University of Lund, Sweden; C.W.K. Gleer-up; 1920.

Euskura has no known historical documents

There are no written records of Euskura, the Basque language, known before the Middle Ages, even though it had been spoken for at least a thousand years by that time.

Some scholars say its origins can be traced to a language spoken on the Iberian peninsula before the Roman occupation, while others maintain that it bears a familial resemblance to certain Caucasian languages; such as, Georgian.

It is said that there are any where from half a million to one million Euskura-speakers in Spain and France. About 900,000 are estimated to be in Spain.

Bilbao, the capital of Vizcaya, is the major city of the Basque region. Most Basques are bilingual or trilingual, speaking Spanish or French (or both) in adddition to Euskara. It is the "only non-Indo-European language of Western Europe".


—From The Pyrenees, revised and edited by Marc Dubin; The Rough Guide;, London; 1994.
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