Navarro-Lapurdian dialect explained

Navarro-Labourdin
Also Known As:Lower Navarrese–Labourdin
States:France
Region:Lower Navarre & Labourd
Date:1991
Familycolor:grey
Fam1:Basque (language isolate)
Dia1:Lapurdian
Dia2:Western Lower Navarrese
Dia3:Eastern Lower Navarrese
Map:Nafar-lapurtera.svg
Isoexception:dialect
Iso3:bqe
Iso3comment:(merged into in 2007)[1]
Glotto:basq1249
Glottorefname:Navarro-Labourdin Basque

Navarro-Labourdin or Navarro-Lapurdian (Basque: nafar-lapurtera) is a Basque dialect spoken in the Lower Navarre and Labourd (Lapurdi) former provinces of the French Basque Country (in the Pyrénées Atlantiques département). It consists of two dialects in older classifications, Lower Navarrese and Labourdin. It differs somewhat from Upper Navarrese spoken in the Peninsular Basque Country.

Lower Navarrese or Low Navarrese (Standard Basque: behe-nafarrera) is actually two subdialects, eastern and western; the western dialect continues into eastern Labourd. Labourdin (French labourdin; Standard Basque lapurtera, locally lapurtara) is spoken in western Lapurdi.

Labourdin is felt by speakers of other dialect to be clear-cut and elegant, retaining like other northern Basque dialects the consonant pronounced as //h//, and it was used along with Gipuzkoan and High Navarrese in the creation of the Batua, a standardised form of Basque intended for teaching and the media.

Classic Labourdin was a literary language of the 17th century, used by authors such as Axular. The type of syllable stress in Hondarribian Basque is considered to be a remainder of the one that may have been used in Classic Lapurdian.

Salazarese, spoken in Spain, was once thought to be a subdialect of Navarro-Lapurdian, but it is now classified as Eastern Navarrese.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: bqe ISO 639-3 . iso639-3.sil.org . SIL International . 18 April 2021 . en . 2020 . Retirement Remedy: Merge into Basque [eus].