Old Navarrese

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

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 Latinic Romance Italo-Western Western Romance Western Iberian Navarro-Aragonese Old Navarrese
Early forms	Old Latin Vulgar Latin Proto-Romance (unclassified) Navarro-Aragonese
Dialects	Navarrese
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

History

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

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

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.