Navarrese Romance

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Navarrese Romance
Native toNorthern Spain
RegionCentral and southern Navarre
EthnicityNavarrese
Early forms
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3
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Navarrese Romance, or simply Navarrese, are varieties of Ibero-Romance spoken in the former Kingdom of Navarre. It is one of three Navarro-Aragonese dialects (the other two Old Riojan and the Aragonese dialects).

Orthography

Much like many other Romance languages, Navarrese is written in the Latin script with its own variations.

Medieval spellings for phonemes in Navarrese [1]
PhonemeSpelling(s)Usage notes
[wa]oa
[ʎ]yll, ill, lli, yl, ll, l, lg, li, il
[ɲ]ynn, yn, nni, jnn, inn, nn, ng, yn, ny, in, ni
[ʃ]x, xc, sc, xs, iss, yss, ssx is most commonly found in texts of non-native speakers and sparsely in texts written by native speakers.
[t͡ʃ]ch, z, ç, s, gch is the most common spelling.
[t͡s]ts, tz, ç, z[t͡s] was represented by ç and z in word-final position.

References

  1. Ciérvide, Ricardo (1970). "El romance navarro antiguo: onomástica medieval navarra de los siglos X al XV". Fontes Linguae Vasconum. 6 (1): 271.