The Controversy of the Letter of the Royal Spanish Academy in the Basque Country: Basque Language, Official Status and Education in 1916
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https://doi.org/10.26876/uztaro.86.2013.2Keywords:
Basque language · Spanish language · Catalan language · Official Status · Education · Royal Spanish Academy · Civil Governor · Spanish nationalism · Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ-PNV) · Biscay · Early twentieth centuryAbstract
In 1916 a controversy erupted following the publication of a letter from the Royal Spanish Academy (signed by its director Antonio Maura). That letter was echoed by a rule of the civil governor of Biscay in wich he ordered using the Spanish language in all official events in the Basque-speaking villages. The historiography barely mentions these facts. But it is a very illuminating controversy to know the official, social and ideological situation of both Basque and Spanish languages in the early twentieth century.Downloads
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2013-09-06
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Kintana Goiriena, J., & Artetxe Sanchez, K. (2013). The Controversy of the Letter of the Royal Spanish Academy in the Basque Country: Basque Language, Official Status and Education in 1916. Uztaro. Giza Eta Gizarte-Zientzien Aldizkaria, (86), 29–71. https://doi.org/10.26876/uztaro.86.2013.2
