Navarrese dialect

Navarrese is a variety 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).

Navarrese
Native to	Northern Spain
Region	Central and southern Navarre
Ethnicity	Navarrese
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latinic Romance Italo-Western Western Romance Western Iberian Navarro-Aragonese Navarrese
Early forms	Old Latin Vulgar Latin Proto-Romance (unclassified) Navarro-Aragonese
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

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]

Phoneme	Spelling(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⟩, ⟨ss⟩	⟨x⟩ is most commonly found in texts of non-native speakers and sparsely in texts written by native speakers.
[t͡ʃ]	⟨ch⟩, ⟨z⟩, ⟨ç⟩, ⟨s⟩, ⟨g⟩	⟨ch⟩ is the most common spelling.
[t͡s]	⟨ts⟩, ⟨tz⟩, ⟨ç⟩, ⟨z⟩	[t͡s] was represented by ⟨ç⟩ and ⟨z⟩ in word-final position.