Navarro-Labourdin or Navarro-Lapurdian () is a
Basque dialect spoken in the
Lower Navarre
Lower Navarre (; Gascon/Bearnese: ''Navarra Baisha''; ; ) is a traditional region of the present-day French '' département'' of Pyrénées-Atlantiques. It corresponds to the northernmost ''region'' of the Kingdom of Navarre during the Middle A ...
and
Labourd (Lapurdi) former provinces of the French
Basque Country (in the
Pyrénées Atlantiques ''
département
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''). 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 , 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.
References
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Basque dialects
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