Navarro-Lapurdian dialect

Navarro-Labourdin
Lower Navarrese–Labourdin
Native to	France
Region	Lower Navarre & Labourd
Native speakers	(68,000 cited 1991)[1]
Language family	Basque (language isolate) Navarro-Labourdin
Dialects	Lapurdian Western Lower Navarrese Eastern Lower Navarrese
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bqe (merged into eus in 2007)[2]
Glottolog	basq1249
Navarro-Lapurdian   Salazarese

Navarro-Labourdin or Navarro-Lapurdian (

spoken in the Peninsular Basque Country.

Lower Navarrese or Low Navarrese (

: behe-nafarrera) is actually two subdialects, eastern and western; the western dialect continues into eastern Labourd. Labourdin (French labourdin; Standard Basque lapurtera, locally lapurtara) is spoken in western Lapurdi.

Labourdin is felt by speakers of other dialect to be clear-cut and elegant, retaining like other northern Basque dialects the consonant /h/, and it was used along with

of Basque intended for teaching and the media.

Classic Labourdin was a literary language of the 17th century, used by authors such as

Basque is considered to be a remainder of the one that may have been used in Classic Lapurdian.

.

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