Languagle #53: Basque
Adiskide onekin, orduak labur
"With a good friend, the hours are short."
What it means
Time flies in good company. With a good friend, even long hours feel short.
What kind of saying it is
Oral tradition. In Basque, a atsotitza. Passed down by word of mouth. Sayings like this have no single author.
About the Basque language
Basque, or Euskara, is spoken by around 750,000 people in the Basque Country, which straddles northern Spain and southwestern France. It is a language isolate: it is not related to any other known language, and it was spoken in the region before Indo-European languages such as Latin arrived. It has survived for thousands of years surrounded by Romance languages. It is written in the Latin alphabet.