Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1916 — Curious Basque Language. [ARTICLE]

Curious Basque Language.

It is said that though the Basque language, which is spoken in the Pyrenees, is one of the most difficult of all languages to acquire, the youngest child conscious of his own thought, can express himself perfectly in it It is averred that in vigor and wordpainting, this is the richest of alt languages. This may be partly due t* the fact that nouns, pronouns and adjectives change into verbs at will, and verbs may be transformed into noun* and adjectives. Every P art of speech, and even the letters of the alphabet can be declined like nouns, and adjust tives are conjugated lika verba.