Basque language

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Basque (Euskara) is a language spoken by approximately 1 million people the Basque country in France and Spain. It is not an Indo-European language, but is instead believed to be a language isolate. Basque is an ergative language, which means that the subject of an intransitive verb is in the absolutive case, while the subject of a transitive verb is marked with the ergative case.