Lower Navarrese

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Lower Navarrese is a regional dialect of the Basque language traditionally spoken in the Lower Navarre area of the French Basque Country.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Lower Navarrese canonical 2
Low Navarrese 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Basque dialect
regional dialect
belongsTo Basque
surface form: Basque dialect continuum
country France
documentedBy Basque linguists
documentedIn Basque dialect atlases
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName Lower Navarre
surface form: Basse-Navarrais

Baxenabarrese
hasDialectContinuumWith Upper Navarrese
surface form: High Navarrese

Navarrese–Lapurdian Basque
surface form: Lapurdi Basque
hasLoanwordsFrom French
Occitan
hasMorphologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
ergative alignment
hasPhonologicalFeature Basque-type five-vowel system
aspirated consonants in some subvarieties
hasSubdialect eastern Lower Navarrese
western Lower Navarrese
hasSyntacticFeature SOV basic word order
historicalRegion Kingdom of Navarre
influencedBy French
Gascon Occitan
surface form: Gascon
intergenerationalTransmission declining
languageBranch Navarrese–Lapurdian Basque
surface form: Western Basque
languageCodeStatus has no separate ISO 639 code
languageFamily Basque
linguisticArea Pyrenees
surface form: Western Pyrenees
minorityLanguageStatus regional language of France
neighboringDialect Upper Navarrese
surface form: High Navarrese

Navarrese–Lapurdian Basque
surface form: Lapurdi Basque

Souletin Basque
surface form: Zuberoan Basque
partOf Northern Basque dialects
recognizedAs variety of Basque in linguistic studies
region Northern Basque Country
spokenIn France
Northern Basque Country
surface form: French Basque Country

Lower Navarre
standardizationInfluenceFrom Euskara Batua
surface form: Batua (Standard Basque)
subdivisionOf Basque
surface form: Basque language
traditionalUse rural communities
usedBy Basque speakers in Lower Navarre
usedIn folk songs
local oral tradition
regional literature
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Basque hasDialect Lower Navarrese
Upper Navarrese hasDialect Lower Navarrese
this entity surface form: Low Navarrese
Upper Navarrese distinctFrom Lower Navarrese