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Language code: eus

Technical information about ISO 639 language code eus

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The table below provides technical details for the Basque language, designated by the eus code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

eus (Terminology)

Name

Official

Basque

Native

Euskara

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
BiscayanGipuzkoanUpper NavarreseNavarre-LapurdianSouletin
Key facts
Basque is a language isolate with no proven relativesIt uses an ergative-absolutive case system rather than the nominative-accusative pattern common in EuropeThe standardized form, Euskara Batua, was created in the late 1960s to unify written and educational usageThe earliest known Basque words appear in Roman inscriptions from the 1st century, and full sentences surface in 11th-century glossesBasque verb morphology encodes rich agreement, marking subject, direct object and indirect object simultaneously.
Sample phrase

Kaixo, nola zaude?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Basque language, identified by the code eus, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

The ISO 639-2 standard offers two codes for the Basque language: eus for terminology purposes and baq for bibliographic uses.

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