Tribal Berbak is back

Carlos Cid is a natural Madrileño, as well as his parents and three of his four grandparents. The fourth is a Sestaoarra. And he tells us that he started learning Basque out of love for his grandfather. He didn't speak Basque. He told him.

Almudena Miragaya is a Madrileña forest keeper who, when she was young, met a Basque and came to the parties in Vitoria-Gasteiz to learn the Basque language and culture in Madrid. As a result of her studies, she went to the Pastoral School of the Basque Country, where she spent three years, until she returned to Madrid.

Among the changes in strategy that must affect language policies, the request for the official status of the Basque Country in the European Union has taken on special importance. Kike has spoken to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Spanish Government, José Manuel Albares, and has given him interesting instructions on the possibilities for the Basque, Catalan and Galician to become officialin Europe.

The linguist Juan Carlos Moreno Cabrera, author of several books and articles on "Linguistic Nationalism or Spanish" and "Pan-Hispanic Linguistic Imperialism", is critical of those who argue that a language must prevail over other languages and that this ideology is a consequence of the political, social and economic power of Spain.

Outside the Basque Country, about a thousand students are studying Basque throughout the Spanish State, most of them in different Official Language Schools, Basque centres or universities. 

Errukine Olaziregi, who is a professor of Basque at the Official School of Languages in Madrid, has studied why the Madrileños learn Basque and says that the number of Basque students has increased dramatically , from 60 in 2018 to 180 this year.

lparragirre sang the Gernika Tree for the first time outside the Basque Country, in Madrid, and we have met where it was. There is also a Gernika Tree offspring in Madrid and we have visited it.

We have collected through the streets what the Madrileños know about the Euskera , and in Madrid we have also learned some curiosities about the Euskera, such as the Basque verse written by Lope de Vega.

All this and more at the premiere of the new season of Tribuaren Berbak, Sunday, October 4, at 22:15 on ETB1.