Olaibarko aldaeraren inguruan (Lehen erdia: iparraldeko herriak) [On the Olaibar variety (1 - First half: northern villages)]

Abstract

The Olaibar variety was given its name by Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte when he made his dialectal classification of the Basque language. He located the southernmost point of the variety in the town of Villava, near Pamplona, from which it spreads north of Mount Ezkaba, encompassing the valleys of Ezkabarte, Olaibar and Odieta. This variety, the fifth, completed, along with the Erro, Burguete, Arce and Egüés varieties, what he called the cispamplonés subdialect of the southern upper Navarrese dialect. This article offers texts collected from the northernmost part of the area some thirty years ago.