| Roncalese | |
|---|---|
| Erronkariera | |
| Native to | Spain |
| Region | Roncal, Navarre |
| Extinct | 1991[1] |
Basque
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | ronc1236 |
 Roncalese | |
Roncalese (in Basque: erronkariera, in Roncalese dialect: Erronkariko uskara) is an extinct Basque dialect once spoken in the Roncal Valley in Navarre, Spanish Basque Country. It is a subdialect of Eastern Navarrese in the classification of Koldo Zuazo. It had been classified as a subdialect of Souletin (otherwise spoken in the province of Soule in the French Basque Country) in the 19th-century classification of Louis Lucien Bonaparte, and as a separate dialect in the early-20th-century classification of Resurrección María de Azkue.[2] The last speaker of the Roncalese, Fidela Bernat, died in 1991.[1]
Roncalese preserves historical nasals which have been lost from other dialects, a fact which has proven valuable in discrediting the aizkora theory (that Basque vocabulary is continuous from the Stone Age).[citation needed]
- ^ a b Artola, Koldo (2000). "Fidela Bernat anderea, euskal hiztun erronkariarra (eta II)" (PDF). Fontes linguae vasconum: Studia et documenta (32): 487–512. doi:10.35462/flv85.7. S2CID 260527738. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
- ^ "Erronkariera". Nafarroako Euskararen Mediateka. Euskarabidea, Government of Navarre.