Aurizko aldaeraren inguruan (Aurizko eta Orreagako euskararen lagin batzuk) [About the Burguete speech (some materials on Burguete and Roncesvalles Basque)]

Abstract

Following our custom, we have prepared this paper considering the dialect classification contained in Louis-Lucien Bonaparte’s admirable dialect map. We bring forth here materials collected in the two villages that, according to the prince’s classification, formed this variety. In the final part of the introduction, but whithout dwelling on details, we have shown that the Basque speech we have come to know, spoken only by a few old people, was heavily influenced by the speech of both Aezkoa and Valcarlos, the parents of some informants having come from those areas. Yet, in one family of Burguete, surnamed Irigarai, the local speech is largely maintained.