The Basque People, One of Europe's Most Distinctive Ethnic Groups

The Basque people, one of Europe's most distinctive ethnic groups, have maintained a strong ethnic identity and a language that is unrelated to any other known language. However, Basque face the same pressures that all minority languages do, in that

A) they lack folk literature and song that promotes ethnic pride in their culture and its language.
B) Basque parents, ashamed of their ethnicity, are refusing to teach their children their language, opting for their full immersion in schools that teach in the national language.
C) increased marriage among Basque and non-Basque individuals threatens the loss of a unique genetic mutation that allows Basque speakers to make certain sounds distinctive to their language.
D) knowledge of the national language (in this case Spanish or French) is essential, and most education, publishing, and broadcasting is in the national language.
E) currently, both the Spanish and French governments outlaw the use of Basque in public.