In the 19 eighties, just about one and six or seven basques went to school in the baske language. To day, about two thirds of baskes study in entirely as medium schools except that they learn spanish as a foreign language. In ireland, for example, virtually every school pupil is required to study irish. Welsh has actually been revived due to a big push, both in culture and in on street signs and things.
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