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 dialect continuum
linked to: Basque
country France
documentedBy Basque linguists
documentedIn Basque dialect atlases
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName Basse-Navarrais
linked to: Lower Navarre

Baxenabarrese
hasDialectContinuumWith High Navarrese
linked to: Upper Navarrese

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
linked to: Gascon Occitan
intergenerationalTransmission declining
languageBranch Western Basque
languageCodeStatus has no separate ISO 639 code
languageFamily Basque
linguisticArea Western Pyrenees
linked to: Pyrenees
minorityLanguageStatus regional language of France
neighboringDialect High Navarrese
linked to: Upper Navarrese

Lapurdi Basque
Zuberoan Basque
linked to: Souletin Basque
partOf Northern Basque dialects
recognizedAs variety of Basque in linguistic studies
region Northern Basque Country
spokenIn France
French Basque Country
Lower Navarre
standardizationInfluenceFrom Batua (Standard Basque)
linked to: Euskara Batua
subdivisionOf Basque language
linked to: Basque
traditionalUse rural communities
usedBy Basque speakers in Lower Navarre
usedIn folk songs
local oral tradition
regional literature
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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 Low Navarrese
linked to: Lower Navarrese
Upper Navarrese distinctFrom Lower Navarrese