New geography of the Basque country on several significant maps
- On December 14, the presentation of the works of the Txillardegi-Pentsartu Sociollinguistics Awards organized by the Sociolinguistic Clusters took place. The winner of the second prize of 2023, Garikoitz Goikoetxea, Euskera technician, has made an additional presentation of his work presenting on Twitter "Euskararen geografia berria", which we consider of special interest. We need a renewal of the map of the distribution of Euskera or Euskaldunes, and in recent years there have been trials, such as the interactive map with data from the Beñat Agirre time in 2016, which we also collected in Sustatun.
In the words of Goikoetxea, therefore, the following explanations and data.
1.Euskaldunes by municipalities. Growing importance of urban centers. The fact is that more than half of the Basques live in 23 municipalities.
2.Pero in many of these municipalities, despite the large number of Euskaldunes, the density is low: 62% of Euskaldunes live in minority countries.
3.Evolucion knowledge: increase of the lowest densities, especially through school (except Lapurdi, which is more restricted to the south of Navarra); decrease of the highest densities due mainly to migration.
4th. Where does the geography of knowledge go? Considering the population aged 2 to 55, the trends are: Increasing the CAPV gap and gaining weight Bizkai-Araba (no data in Iparralde)
5.La understanding advances more than knowledge: those who understand Basque are the majority in many areas. How do you benefit?
Beyond knowledge, capacity, returning to the contribution of Iñaki Iurrebaso [of this we have also recently talked about in Sustatun]. The continuum of capacity also has a geographical reading: the funnel of some areas and the plots of others
6.Uso intensive (equal or superior to Spanish) 10% below the wide territory. The importance of Euskaldunes: Areas 3-4 represent 18% of the population, 38% of the Basque population, 58% of the use.
7.En number of uses: significant weight also in smaller areas (40%). Significant weight of San Sebastian. Use is changing, increasingly in confusing contexts.
[After the seventh map, we looked at the 2016 photo, which collected the map made by Beñat Agirre adding densities and uses. It is a kind of version of this map of Goikoetxea with the 2016 data, see on the link and in the image below]
[Back to the thread of Goikoetxea...]
8.Why act? With a national approach, we need linguistic planning tailored to each location. Zoning: not in rights, of course, but in planning. Beyond the urban centers, the counties are an interesting pomo.
The full work will be available in the BAT socio-linguistic magazine from February to March. If you want, you can watch the presentation video here:
