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 Basque
is spoken by approximately a third of the Basques, with its stronghold
in the contiguous area from central Biscay through Gipuzkoa, northern
Navarre and parts of Labourd to sparsely populated Lower Navarre and
Soule. Out of a total of nearly 3,000,000 Basques, it is estimated that
some 1,063,000 speak Basque in which 632,000 are native speakers.A standardized form of the Basque language called Batua was created at the end of the 20th century. This standard is mainly used in the Basque Basque country, and to a lesser extent in the Northern Basque Country due to the limited availability of schools teaching in Basque or offering it as a subject. Apart from this standardized version, there are six main Basque dialects - Bizkaian, Gipuzkoan, and Upper Navarrese (in Spain), and Lower Navarrese, Lapurdian, and Zuberoan (in France). However, the dialect boundaries are not congruent with political boundaries.
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