Agosto Xahoren proposamenak euskararen ortografiaz

Coyos, Battittu

Publication year:

2013

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISBN:

978-84-8419-252-7

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Summary

Notes and proposals made by Augustin Chaho on the spelling of Basque are analysed. They are set against current Standard Basque orthography. We have different sources to hand: L´Ariel journal published by Chaho, and his book La Guerre des alphabets, règles d´orthographe euskarienne. Like wise, ; the appendix includes the writing system of two manuscripts. According to Chaho, it was necessary to create a standard set of rules, since at that time each writer used his particular Basque. He believed that the rules had to be valid for all dialects of the Basque language.