Upper Navarrese (sometimes called High Navarrese) is a
dialect of the
Basque language spoken in the
Navarre
Navarre (; es, Navarra ; eu, Nafarroa ), officially the Chartered Community of Navarre ( es, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, links=no ; eu, Nafarroako Foru Komunitatea, links=no ), is a foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, ...
( eu, Nafarroa or ''Nafarroa Garaia'') community of
Spain, as established by linguist
Louis Lucien Bonaparte
Louis Lucien Bonaparte (4 January 1813 – 3 November 1891) was a French philologist. The third son of Napoleon's second surviving brother, Lucien Bonaparte, he spent much of his life outside France for political reasons. After a brief political ...
in his famous 1869 map. He actually distinguished two dialects: Meridional (area of
Pamplona and south) and Septentrional. However, the southern varieties became extinct early in the 20th century mainly after becoming absorbed by Northern Spanish or Aragonese. So documentation of the Meridional subgroup is rendered impossible. It is unknown whether the extinction was due to Francisco Franco's
fierce suppression of Basque culture.
Upper Navarrese and
Eastern Navarrese
Eastern Navarrese (''Ekialdeko nafar euskalkia'' in Basque) 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 dia ...
are no closer to each other than they are to
Gipuzkoan.
See also
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Basque dialects
References
Basque dialects
Navarre culture
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