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In French the language is normally called basque or, in recent times, euskara.

There is a greater variety of Spanish names for the language.

Today, it is most commonly referred to as el vasco, la lengua vasca or el euskera.

Both terms, vasco and basque, are inherited from Latin ethnonym Vascones which in turn goes back to the Greek term οὐασκώνους ( ouaskōnous ), an ethnonym used by Strabo in his Geographica ( 23 CE, Book III ).