Benito Lertxundi's song for the International Basque Language Day (translation from Basque)

The Basque language is part of the human heritage: a tool for
Communication and unity.
A necessary resource
to understand each other and
achieve the highest human ideal.

Language
perfects the animal
and turns it into a human being.
It channels mutual aid for it to be realised in the
human level.
In this sense it reaches out
to the needs
of each and every people.

Language is a faithful mirror,
in which a people’s
social conditions
are reflected
throughout history.

In each generation
language teaches
all the basic culture.

A people that breaks away
from its language
is a people that destroys its tradition and
freezes its soul.

Language has in itself
the way to understand
the outlook of a people, when its speakers speak it.

Basque, our language,
is part of the human heritage.

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