Euskaltzaindia during the 1960's: the attempts to introduce the Basque language into the state school system of Francoist Spain

Abstract

Euskaltzaindia, as the academy of a minorised language, made petitions to the Education and Science Ministry in order to introduce the Basque language into the state school system. Those actions were carried out with the collaboration of different sociopolitical groups, including the underground, but using spokesmen that could be accepted by the dictatorship. The standard Basque officially inaugurated in 1968, also served as part of the status planning to fill in formal language functions like school. Although the Ministry created great expectation with a White Paper on education in 1969, the following Reform Law of 1970 limited the development of the native languages, other than Spanish.