900K+ speakers · Southern Europe
Translate your product to Basque
Basque is spoken by 900K+ people across the Basque Country, a region spanning northern Spain and southwestern France. It is a language isolate with no known relatives, and its speakers are concentrated in one of Spain's wealthiest and most industrialized regions.
Why add Basque to your product?
Bilbao and San Sebastián's tech scene
The Basque Country's main cities have built a modest but well-regarded tech and innovation scene, supported by strong local industry and research institutions. Basque-speaking businesses are engaged buyers of international B2B software.
A region spanning two countries
The Basque Country extends across both northern Spain and southwestern France, giving a single Basque localization reach into two national markets at once, unified by a shared language and cultural identity.
EU market access
Both Spain and France, the two countries the Basque Country spans, are full EU members, giving Basque-speaking consumers and businesses access to the EU single market. GDPR-compliant products can be sold across this market without additional regulatory friction.
A strong engineering and technical tradition
The Basque Country has a long-standing tradition of technical and engineering education, reflected in institutions like Mondragon University and a robust industrial base. Basque-speaking professionals are experienced evaluators of technical and business software.
Add Basque in 3 steps
- 1
Create a Lingvit project
Sign up at app.lingvit.com and create a project for your site. Select Basque as a target language.
- 2
Paste the script tag
Copy your project script tag and add it before
</body>on every page. One line — no SDK, no build changes.<script src="https://cdn.lingvit.com/widget.bundle.js?v=1" async></script> - 3
Go live
Deploy your site as usual. Visitors with Basque browser settings see your content in Basque automatically. Review and refine translations any time from the dashboard.
Frequently asked questions
How accurate is Basque machine translation?
Basque is a language isolate, unrelated to Spanish, French, or any other known language family, with a complex agglutinative grammar. This makes it more demanding for machine translation than neighboring Romance languages. Modern systems handle everyday business content reasonably well; the Lingvit editorial dashboard is useful for reviewing specialized or nuanced copy.
Does Lingvit handle Basque characters and spelling conventions?
Yes. Basque uses the Latin alphabet with distinctive digraphs like tx, tz, and ts, and generally avoids the accented characters found in Spanish or French. All standard Basque orthography renders correctly across browsers and devices.
Is Basque worth localizing to given the small speaker count?
Yes, for the right products. The Basque Country's unusually high GDP per capita and strong industrial economy mean a small audience can still deliver solid commercial value, and Basque-language products stand out in a market accustomed to Spanish- and French-only options.
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