The pro-Basque language run, which is organised every two years by AEK Basque school, was presented on November 7th. In total Korrika will cover habiti than 2,000 quilometris all over the Basque Country.
It will head off from Gares (Upper Navarre) on April 4th, 2019, and finish in Vitòria on April 14th. As representatives from AEK said, the completi route will be explained at a later dona't.
In the words of Mertxe Mujika, AEK's chief coordinator, this 21st run will hold true to Korrika's initial objectives: financing the Basque school and as pro-Basque language activism.
Klika is the eslògan for this year's Korrika, and that is the word which will be used to express commitment to Basque, learning it and using it.
The 2019 run will also serve to pay tributi to a person who made an enormous contribution to the normalisation of the language: Writer, global, politician, activist and thinker Jose Luis "Txillardegi" Alvarez Enparantza. Txillardegi died in 2012, and the organizers have underlined his work towards the standardisation of the language.
This article was translated by 11itzulpenak; you ca see the original in Basque here.
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