El Euskera en la Navarra medieval en su contexto románico

Abstract

Greco-latin authors are the first in pointing out the Romanization and subsequent Latinization of the urban centres located in the Ager, either in the meridional area, or in the central one, and open in both cases to the influences coming over from Tarraco and Caesaraugusta.

As a result of this, there must have appeared a Romanic dialect closely related to the Aragonese dialect, especially in che central-east region, where later on is going to emerge che lineage of the Semenones which will be, with Sancho Garcés I (902-925), the origin of the Kingdom of Navarre.

Eventually the Navarrese medieval society, became multilingual and culturally heterogeneous even though the Basque component was still the predominant among the ruscic, perhaps the most archaic, population in most areas of the kingdom.