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135,000 participants and 7,500 entities participated in the
  • "It has been an incredible movement that has generated the exercise," said the Basque Language Coordination Committee on the day after eleven days of exercise.
Gorka Peñagarikano Goikoetxea 2025eko maiatzaren 26a

Most of the cities have hosted their fourth edition: 450 have been involved in the practical exercise. Therefore, the main task of some towns and neighborhoods has been to popularize the Euskaraldia itself for the first time, and that of others to stabilize the exercise itself and continue taking steps.

In this fourth edition, 135,000 people participated. There will be some more, for example because they signed up on paper sheets. In addition, since the second edition of the initiative, the entities are also invited to participate. This year, 7,500 have joined it.

Apart from the data, the organization emphasizes that it is only the data of those who have participated, because many people have participated in the exercise without giving names, either because they were registered last year, or because they had stored the sheet of paper of previous editions. He also self-criticized: "We've seen fewer plaques on the street than we'd like, and that's something that needs to be studied, why some pertons take the plaque but then they don't wear it."

Despite all this, Euskaraldia has reached the strata without having reached it yet, according to the organization. "The exercise has taken another step to expand," they say.

"Use of the Basque language in the center"

"The Basque language has been spoken about, the need to influence its use has been emphasized, the movement that the exercise has generated is enormous," they said in the note. They believe that the exercise has caused people to reflect, that people have tried to have conversations in Basque that were not in Basque before, and that, obviously, Euskaraldia is effective.