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Old Navarrese

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Old Navarrese
Navarrese Romance
Native toSpain
RegionCentral, southern, and eastern areas of the Kingdom of Navarre
EthnicityNavarrese
Era10th–17th centuries
Early forms
Dialects
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3

Old Navarrese or Navarrese Romance was the name of several varieties of Navarro-Aragonese spoken in the centre, south, and east of the Kingdom of Navarre. It was spoken from the 10th to 17th centuries.

History

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Old Navarrese can date back to the 10th century, in which it was originally spoken in eastern areas such as Sangüesa and Sierra de Leyre.[1]

Orthography

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Old Navarrese was written in a variety of the Latin script. Several characteristics of Navarrese orthography include diphthong -ua- would change to -oa- as in goardar, qoarto, and qoal,[2] and phonemes /ɲ/ and /ʎ/ being represented by ynn and ill or yll respectively.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Elvira, Javier; Fernández-Ordóñez, Inés (2008). Lenguas, reinos y dialectos en la Edad Media ibérica: la construcción de la identidad : homenaje a Juan Ramón Lodares (in Spanish). Iberoamericana Editorial. p. 36. ISBN 978-84-8489-305-9.
  2. ^ Semana de Estudios Medievales (in Spanish). Gobierno de la Rioja, Instituto de Estudios Riojanos. 1991. p. 281. ISBN 978-84-87252-01-3.
  3. ^ Gunnar, Tilander (2019-05-13). Vidal Mayor: Traducción aragonesa de la obra "In excelsis Dei Thesauris" de Vidal Canellas. Vocabulario (in Spanish). Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza. ISBN 978-84-17873-37-0.