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**Qesomud** · 12-25-2011, 10:00 PM

Firstly, "Miguel" is not a basque name. There is a basque version of this name, Mikel, but he was named by the spanish one. That's got an important meaning.

Secondly, he did not speak basque. In fact, as I said, he despised all languages different from spanish.

Nowadays, he would be from the far-right party Partido Popular or something like that. Like Miguel Ángel Blanco (who was not basque either).

Coming back to the thread, I'm glad about those basque groups around the world but I think they are minories because - as I said - Basque Country has been an industrial land where their people haven't had need to leave.

Pff. Try to find basque sounding names among XIX basque people...(Sabino -a very basque name- Arana wasn't as familiarized with basque language as Unamuno was) He knew euskera and was one of the intellectual fathers of the II Republic. He was a libertarian critical with the monarchy, the carlists, the red revolutionary way taken by the Republic -no es esto, no es esto...- and the autocracy that followed the civil war -franquism-.

"Inscitia, omnis arrogantiae mater est" (google it and learn something...you are welcome)

12-25-2011, 10:00 PM	#10
Qesomud Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 410 Senior Member	Firstly, "Miguel" is not a basque name. There is a basque version of this name, Mikel, but he was named by the spanish one. That's got an important meaning. Secondly, he did not speak basque. In fact, as I said, he despised all languages different from spanish. Nowadays, he would be from the far-right party Partido Popular or something like that. Like Miguel Ángel Blanco (who was not basque either). Coming back to the thread, I'm glad about those basque groups around the world but I think they are minories because - as I said - Basque Country has been an industrial land where their people haven't had need to leave. Pff. Try to find basque sounding names among XIX basque people...(Sabino -a very basque name- Arana wasn't as familiarized with basque language as Unamuno was) He knew euskera and was one of the intellectual fathers of the II Republic. He was a libertarian critical with the monarchy, the carlists, the red revolutionary way taken by the Republic -no es esto, no es esto...- and the autocracy that followed the civil war -franquism-. "Inscitia, omnis arrogantiae mater est" (google it and learn something...you are welcome)
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