Nafarroako Gobernua | Government of Navarre

ORGANISATION

Nafarroako Gobernua | Government of Navarre

In 2007 the Government of Navarre created Euskarabidea-Euskararen Nafar Institutua / Navarrese Institute of Basque Language to manage the language policy of the Government.

Euskarabidea- Euskararen Nafar Institutua takes charge of the study, analysis and assessment of the sociolinguistic and linguistic; it also provides advice to public authorities on language.

It manages programs of use of Basque language in different fields of social life, promoting the presence of the language in the information technology and Communications. It also deals with toponymy, terminology of Basque dialects in Navarre and language teaching to adults.

COUNTRY

Navarre – Spain

TYPE OF ORGANISATION

Full Member. Governmental institution.

WEBSITE

http://www.euskarabidea.es

INFORMATION ABOUT THE LANGUAGE

Basque

NAME OF THE LANGUAGE

HIZKUNTZAREN IZENA

Basque

Euskara

TOTAL NUMBER OF SPEAKERS

HIZTUN-KOPURUA GUZTIRA

751,500

NUMBER OF NATIVE SPAKERS

LEHEN HIZKUNTZA EUSKARA DUTENEN KOPURUA

479,400

GEOGRAPHICAL AREA

EREMU GEOGRAFIKOA

Basque Autonomous Community (BAC), Navarre and Northern Basque Country (NBC)

Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoa EAE, Nafarroa eta Ipar Euskal Herria (IEH)

LANGUAGE FAMILY

HIZKUNTZA-FAMILIA

Official in the BAC, official in the Basque speaking area of Navarre, and not official in the NBC

Ofiziala EAEn, ofiziala Nafarroako eremu batzuetan, eta ez ofiziala IEHn

FIELDS OF USE

ERABILERA-ARLOAK

Used in all social areas: writing and oral use in public administration, judiciary, education (all levels), health services, media, leisure, cultural and social life, and in socio-economics (according to the level of formalization in each of the territories of Basque).

Gizartearen alor guztietan: idatzizko eta ahozko erabilera herri-administrazioan, justizian, hezkuntzan (maila guztietan), osasun-arloan, hedabideetan, aisialdian, kultura- eta gizarte-bizitzan, eta esparru sozioekonomikoan (euskararen lurralde bakoitzean dagoen ofizializazio-mailaren arabera)

YEAR OF SOURCE

2016 (population aged 16 or over)