Old Navarrese

Old Navarrese
Old Navarrese
Navarrese Romance
Native to	Spain
Region	Central, southern, and eastern areas of the Kingdom of Navarre
Ethnicity	Navarrese
Era	10th–17th centuries
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Italo-Western Western Romance (unclassified) (in some classifications) Pyrenean–Mozarabic Navarro-Aragonese Old Navarrese; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Old Latin Vulgar Latin Navarro-Aragonese ; ;
Writing system	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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

^ 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.
^ Semana de Estudios Medievales (in Spanish). Gobierno de la Rioja, Instituto de Estudios Riojanos. 1991. p. 281. ISBN 978-84-87252-01-3.
^ 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.

[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.

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