euskaltegi

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noun

A school for teaching the Basque language.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nouneuskaltegi (plural euskaltegis)

plural euskaltegis

  1. A school for teaching the Basque language.

    The minimum age to sign on at an euskaltegi (Basque language school) is sixteen.

    2005, Iñaki Martínez de Luna, Maria-Jose Azurmendi, “The Case of Basque”, in International Journal of the Sociology of Language, page 73
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    In this way, the users can study with a method that adapts to their needs, at their pace and without the need to go to an Euskaltegi (a school where Euskara classes are specifically taught).

    2000, Manuel Ortega, José Bravo, Computers and education in the 21st century, page 252

    In the beginning, AEK rejected the euskaltegis because it said they prevented grassroots movements from emerging out of the neighborhoods.

    2006, Alfonso Pérez-Agote, The social roots of Basque nationalism, page 136

    An euskaltegi is a language school (also public or private) usually catering to adult learners.

    2010, Gilles Asselin, Ruth Mastron, Au Contraire: Figuring Out the French, page 142

    […] and among those are 300 000 new Basque-speakers (those who have learnt it not at home, but at school or as adults at the euskaltegi.

    2010, Patxi Baztarrika, The evolution of the Basque revival, in Minority language protection in Europe: into a new decade: Regional or minority languages, No. 8 (2010), published by the Council of Europe, page 142

Origin

  1. Basqueeuskaltegi
  2. Basqueeuskaltegi
  3. Englisheuskaltegi

Borrowed from Basque euskaltegi.

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