El catecismo de Artaza (nueva evidencia del euskera en Améscoa)

Abstract

Identification of the author and date of a manuscript written in Basque found in Améscoa Baja (Estella district, Navarra). An attempt at identifying the author of a poem in Basque, hailing from the beginning of the XVII century, as being from Améscoa Baja. A brief historical account of the evolution of the language in Améscoa Alta and Baja based on the information documented over ten centuries of local history: from a monolingual Basque-speaking position to a monolingual Castilian-speaking position.