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euskaltegi

euskaltegi

English

Noun

euskaltegi ‎(plural euskaltegis)

A school for teaching the Basque language.
- 2000, Manuel Ortega, José Bravo, Computers and education in the 21st century, page 252:
  In this way, the users can study with a method that adapts to their needs, at their pace and without the need to go to an Euskaltegi (a school where Euskara classes are specifically taught).
- 2005, Iñaki Martínez de Luna / Maria-Jose Azurmendi, The Case of Basque, in the International Journal of the Sociology of Language, page 73:
  The minimum age to sign on at an euskaltegi (Basque language school) is sixteen.
- 2006, Alfonso Pérez-Agote, The social roots of Basque nationalism, page 136:
  In the beginning, AEK rejected the euskaltegis because it said they prevented grassroots movements from emerging out of the neighborhoods.
- 2010, Gilles Asselin, Ruth Mastron, Au Contraire: Figuring Out the French, page 142:
  An euskaltegi is a language school (also public or private) usually catering to adult learners.
- 2010, Patxi Baztarrika, The evolution of the Basque revival, in Minority language protection in Europe: into a new decade: Regional or minority languages, No. 8 (2010, ISBN 978-92-871-6727-9), published by the Council of Europe, page 142:
  [...] and among those are 300 000 new Basque-speakers (those who have learnt it not at home, but at school or as adults at the euskaltegi.

Basque

Noun

euskaltegi

a school for teaching the Basque language