Patxi Saez Beloki

Patxi Saez Beloki (born March 8, 1964) is a Basque sociolinguist member of the Royal Academy of the Basque Language-Euskaltzaindia. He holds a degree in Social and Information Sciences and is a specialist in Language Planning from the University of the Basque Country.

The Paradigm of the Cart
On February 12, 2016, in Bilbao, at the official headquarters of the Royal Academy of the Basque Language, before more than a hundred academics, researchers and specialists in the basque language, he presented for the first time the Paradigm of the Cart, a sociolinguistic paradigm for the revitalisation of minority languages, also known as the Paradigm of Natural Need, which is interconnected with Maslow's Pyramid or hierarchy of human needs.