Sabrina Otegui. Noel Abella Aiscar is from Montevideo, a musician and feminist. She started Basque just over two years ago, after studying many things, as a music professor, choir director, cellist and trombone player in a rock band, when she needed an intellectual challenge that didn’t have anything to do with her work. “I always liked languages, and I have Basque ancestors so Basque seemed interesting to me,” she told EuskalKultura.eus. What else did she need to join the hundreds of Basque speakers that study the language in different corners of the world?
“Little by little, I entered and in Basque I found a world and a way to communicate with my Zuberoan ancestors, my great-grandparents Pedro Aiscar and María Luisa Eyerabide despite the fact that they had left their homeland in Iparralde more than a century ago.”
[Interview with Noel Abella Aiscar by EuskalKultura.eus. Version in Basque with Spanish subtitles]
Now, she participates actively and takes Basque classes at the Euskaro Center and at the Haize Hegoa Basque Club in Montevideo, as well as online through one HABE course. She also represents FIVU, the Basque Uruguayan Institutions Federation at the Euskara Munduan program managed by the Etxepare Basque Institute.
The Uruguayan student has some advice for those who haven´t yet begun to learn Basque. “Euskera is an exercise in logic, there is no doubt that those of us who study Basque are going to age better!" she says vehemently, with a smile.
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