Driving along Micheltorena Street in Santa Barbara, you are probably unaware of the cultural foundation of the street beneath your tires. Micheltorena is a Basque word, often misunderstood to be ...

When I was growing up, my nightly ritual was probably just like that of other kids in my C.C.D. class. After tucking me in, my mother would sit beside me on the bed and listen to me recite my prayers: ...

How is the identity of a culture transferred? For many cultures it’s through geography or heritage. But what if it was knowledge of a language that conferred a people’s identity. Continuing our series ...

Can a group of eight poets using one of the oldest languages of the world gather thousands of people for listening to poetry for a whole day? Yes, this is real, and it happens every four years during ...

ST. JEAN DE LUZ, France — The world is losing languages at an alarming rate, a United Nations agency reported Thursday, with thousands of tongues expected to disappear by the end of this century. Yet ...

San Sebastián is where Basque cinema's strategy plays out at scale. This year's bumper lineup – 13 Basque world premieres and 38 total projects across features, shorts, docs and retrospectives – ...