Eastern Navarrese (''Ekialdeko nafar euskalkia'' in
Basque
Basque may refer to:
* Basques, an ethnic group of Spain and France
* Basque language, their language
Places
* Basque Country (greater region), the homeland of the Basque people with parts in both Spain and France
* Basque Country (autonomous co ...
) is an extinct
Basque dialect spoken in
Navarre, Spain. It included two subdialects:
Salazarese and
Roncalais.
The name of this dialect was proposed by the foremost living Basque dialectologist,
Koldo Zuazo
Koldo Zuazo ( Eibar, Gipuzkoa, 1956) is a Basque linguist, professor at the University of the Basque Country and specialist in Basque language dialectology and sociolinguistics.
The dialects of the Basque language
Since 1998, Zuazo's work o ...
, in a new classification of Basque dialects published in 2004. Later on, when the last speakers (of the Salazarese subdialect) died at the beginning of the 21st century,
[ Zuazo retired Eastern Navarrese from the list of living dialects.
]
Comparison
Notes and references
External links
*
Map of Basque dialects by Koldo Zuazo
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Basque dialects
Navarre culture
Languages extinct in the 1990s