Roncalese dialect explained

Roncalese
Nativename:Erronkariera
States:Spain
Region:Roncal, Navarre
Extinct:1991
Familycolor:grey
Fam1:Basque
Fam2:Eastern Navarrese
Map:Erronkariera.svg
Isoexception:dialect
Glotto:ronc1236
Glottorefname:Roncalese

Roncalese (in Basque: erronkariera, in Roncalese dialect: Erronkariko uskara) is an extinct Basque dialect once spoken in the Roncal Valley in Navarre, Spain. It is a subdialect of Eastern Navarrese in the classification of Koldo Zuazo. It had been classified as a subdialect of Souletin (otherwise spoken in the province of Soule in France) in the 19th-century classification of Louis Lucien Bonaparte, and as a separate dialect in the early-20th-century classification of Resurrección María de Azkue.[1] The last speaker of the Roncalese, Fidela Bernat, died in 1991.[2]

Roncalese preserves historical nasals which have been lost from other dialects, a fact which has proven valuable in discrediting the aizkora theory (that Basque vocabulary is continuous from the Stone Age).

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Erronkariera. Nafarroako Euskararen Mediateka. Euskarabidea, Government of Navarre.
  2. Artola. Koldo. Fidela Bernat anderea, euskal hiztun erronkariarra (eta II). Fontes linguae vasconum: Studia et documenta. 2000. 32. 487–512. 10.35462/flv85.7 . 260527738 . 2014-02-21.