Plurilingüismo histórico en Euskal Herria

Abstract

In Euskal Herria -the land of those who speak basque- many people from different languages and cultures have settled for centuries, forming up a multilingual society: In the first millennium it was the protocelts, and the celts; the iberos at the same time and the romanization and Latin later.

From this language will come the romanic languages, some of them developed in Vasconia: Castilian in part, and the «navarro aragonés» in the south and Gascon to the north. We should add, between the end of the XIth century and the XIVth, the Occitan-Languedocian in the villages along the «Camino de Santiago». Once the different romanic varieties of Languedocian and Navarro Aragones had disappeared, Basque remained as the privative language and French and Spanish as the exchange and cultural languages.