Salazarese dialect
| Salazarese | |
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| Zaraitzuko uskara | |
| Native to | Spain |
| Region | Salazar Valley, Navarre |
| Extinct | (2 speakers in 2002) |
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Basque
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
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Salazarese (locally Zaraitzuko uskara) is the Basque dialect of the Salazar Valley of Navarre, Spain.
In English it is also known as Zaraitzu Basque, the Zaraitzu dialect or Salazar dialect; in Spanish as salacenco and in Basque as Zaraitzuko euskara.
Basque was spoken in the Salazar valley until the first half of the 20th century; ever since, the number of speakers started a dramatic decline. At the time of the 2002 linguistic census, there were only two native speakers, both with ages over 85, and within a few years Salazarese became extinct. However, its features had been documented over the 19th and 20th centuries.
From the 1980s there has been a revival of the Basque language in Spain. As a result, roughly a quarter of the valley's inhabitants now speak Standard Basque. It would be possible to revive the Salazarese dialect to some degree by teaching its features to Batua speakers.
Some religious texts were written: the Christian doctrines of Itzalle and Orontze and texts published by Satrustegi.
Apart from more religious texts, there is a wealth of significant research work by Louis-Lucien Bonaparte.
Pedro Jose Sanper translated the Gospel of Matthew. and Jose Urrutia undertook the translation of Arturo Campion's “Orreaga”.
Aitor Arana has collected the testimonies of Basque-speakers of Zaraitzu, published a dictionary of the dialect in 2001, and next year a book of grammar. In 2004 he published a collection of texts and he gave some curses of the local Basque in the Valley. The work of the researcher Inaki Camino should be mentioned as well.
A! — suspiratzen du Karlomagnok. — Ez doket lorik egin; su batek erretzen nu. Zer da arroitu kori? — Eta Erroldanek, loak errenditurik, ez zakon errespondatu. — Jauna —erran zuen Turpin onak; — erreza ezazu, erreza ezazu enekin. Arroitu kori da Uskal Herriko gerla kantua eta egun da gure gloriaren azken eguna.
VIII
Iguzkiak argitzen ditu bizkarrak. Irabazirik Karlomagno ihesi faten da “bere pluma beltz eta bere kapa gorriarekin”. Haurrak eta emazteak dantzatzen dira kontentuz beterik Ibañetan. Kanpokorik ez da ja Uskal Herrian eta menditarren irrintziak igaten dira zeruetaraino.
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