`Sancho'

Rick Mc Callister rmccalli at sunmuw1.MUW.Edu
Thu Mar 18 15:42:12 UTC 1999


	Navarrese is usually considered a form of Aragonese and I've read
in some places that Navarra is now the only place where "Aragonese" is now
spoken.
	Similarly, Asturias is about the only place where "Leonese" is now
spoken --although its speakers generally call it "bable".

>I don't know.  But the first Romance variety I would look at is
>Navarrese Romance, since this was the Romance variety used in Navarre by
>non-Basque-speakers, and the second is Gascon, since Gascon, or at least
>some variety of Occitan, was widely used in the early days of the
>Kingdom of Navarre as the language of polite society.  (Basque was
>*never* used in this function, even though it was the majority language
>in the larger part of Navarre.)



More information about the Indo-european mailing list