In the basque region of spain people prefer to speak what? spanish or euskara or catalan?

Question

In the basque region of spain people prefer to speak what? spanish or euskara or catalan?

Answer 1

Basque (Euskera) is just spoken in that autonomous community (that includes three provinces) and partly in Navarre and the closest area of South France.

Catalan and variations of it are spoken in the autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands.

Everybody understand Spanish, in fact, both languages (euskera in the Basque Country and Catalan in the communities I've said) are co-official with Spanish.

The preference depends on the person. People who are highly independentist try to speak just the local language and not Spanish.

Answer 2

euskara) is the language spoken by the Basque people who inhabit the Pyrenees in North-Central Spain and the adjoining region of South-Western France.

It is spoken by approximately a quarter of the Basques, with its stronghold in the contiguous area formed by eastern Guipúzcoa, northwestern Navarre and the sparsely populated French Lower Navarre and Soule. It is not spoken in most of Álava, in western Biscay, or in the southern half of Navarre. Out of a total of nearly 3,000,000 Basques, it is estimated that some 632,000 are Basque language speakers, of which approximately 566,000 live in the Spanish Basque country, with the rest residing in the French part of it.[1]

While being a heavily-dialectalized language (especially when compared to the rather small distribution range), it has been standardized and updated by the end of the 20th century by means of its Batua version. This one is mainly used in the Spanish Basque country, and not so much by French speakers.

The Basques occupy a Spanish autonomous community known as the Basque Country (Euskadi), which has significant cultural and political autonomy, the Northern Basque Country in French department of the Pyrennées Atlantiques, and the autonomous community of Navarre in Spain, which together make up the historical Basque Country (Euskal Herria). The Standard Basque name for the language is euskara. In dialectal forms it is known as euskara, euskera, eskuara, or üskara.

Answer 3

Euskera.That's the same with 'vasco' which is spoken in 'País Vasco' or 'Euskadi:D;)

Answer 4

Well, not Catalán.  That isn't actually spoken there.  Unless, of course, you ran into two catalán people who happened to be onversing, like, during their vacation or somethng.

I've not been to Basque country since they began using the language again, but if it's anything like Cataluña, everything is in Spanish, and Euskara.  Just like everything in Canada is in French and English.  Dual language.  I'm sure that amongst themselves and others who know the language, most people prefer to use their own language.  After all, Franco so strictly supressed it for forty years, that they must be glorying in the freedom to use it again.