Scripta medieval en Baja Navarra (ss. XIV-XV)

CIERBIDE MARTINENA, Ricardo

Publication year:

2008

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISBN:

978-84-8419-171-1

ISSN:

1137-4454

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Summary

The medieval scripta from Lower Navarre (14th and 15th centuries) were ; written in Gascon, with the peculiarity that 13 % of such documents were written by notaries living in peninsular Navarre. 15th century Navarran romance, with strong Castilian Spanish influence, shared with Gascon the rank of being a language written in communications between the officials of the royal chancellery. The towns of Lower Navarre must have had a bilingual population that used both Basque and Gascon to express themselves during those centuries.