Challenge

The 24th edition of Korrika aims to bring the language community to the forefront. Minority languages are facing an increasing number of challenges in securing speakers and spaces in which to speak, or in maintaining those they already have. For this reason, it is essential to build a strong connection between the community identity and rewarding life experiences related to the language.

These are the kinds of initiatives that Korrika embodies: an emotional outburst from the Basque-speaking community, a joyful and determined popular claim. For some, it is a path to empowerment; for many, it is a way to connect with the Basque language.

This is precisely the goal of AEK: we want all people living in the Basque Country to be able to use the language with easy, and we wish the same for all minority languages around the world.

AEK embraced this objective through the 2021 Batuz Aldatu* (Bringing about change together) initiative.

AEK-Korrika wants to spread this message to every corner of the world. With this in mind, we intend to translate it into as many minority languages as possible. Therefore, here is a challenge for all our Korrika friends around the world.

TRANSLATE THE TEXT into your local minority languages and RECORD A SHORT VIDEO OF IT. We will then be able to embed the video on our website and share it on social media.

Here is the text (to make translation easier, versions in English, French and Spanish are also available)

We will also accept translations into hegemonic languages; however, in these cases, please do not use glottonyms and keep the Basque language name euskara as the word itself.