Lapurdian or Labourdin is a dialect

Dialect

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 of the Basque language

Basque language

Basque is the ancestral language of the Basque people, who inhabit the Basque Country, a region spanning an area in northeastern Spain and southwestern France. It is spoken by 25.7% of Basques in all territories...

 spoken in the Lapurdi

Labourd

Labourd is a former French province and part of the present-day Pyrénées Atlantiques département. It is historically one of the seven provinces of the traditional Basque Country....

  region of the Basque Country

Northern Basque Country

The French Basque Country or Northern Basque Country situated within the western part of the French department of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques constitutes the north-eastern part of the Basque Country....

 in France

France

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. Lapurdian is felt among other dialect speakers to be clear-cut and elegant, featuring like other Basque dialects on French soil aspired phonemes, and it has added along with Gipuzkoan

Gipuzkoan

Gipuzkoan is a dialect of the Basque language spoken mainly in the province of Gipuzkoa in Basque Country but also in a small part of Navarre. It is a central dialect, spoken in the central and eastern part of Gipuzkoa...

 and High Navarrese

Upper Navarrese

Upper Navarrese is a dialect of the Basque language spoken in the Navarre community of Spain, as established by linguist Louis Lucien Bonaparte in his famous 1869 map. He actually distinguished two dialects: Meridional and Septentrional...

 to the creation of the Batua

Batua

Standard Basque is a standardised version of the Basque language, developed by the Basque Language Academy in the late 1960s, which nowadays is the most widely and commonly spoken Basque-language version throughout the Basque Country...

, a standardised form of Basque intended for teaching and the media

Mass media

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Classic Lapurdian refers to the form of Lapurdian used in literature

Literature

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 during the 17th century, especially by author

Author

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s like Axular

Pedro Agerre

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. The type of syllable stress in Hondarribia

Hondarribia

Hondarribia is a town situated on the west shore of Bidasoa river's mouth, in Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain. The border town is sited on a little promontory facing Hendaye over the Txingudi bay. The town holds an ancient old quarter with walls and a castle...

n Basque

Basque language

Basque is the ancestral language of the Basque people, who inhabit the Basque Country, a region spanning an area in northeastern Spain and southwestern France. It is spoken by 25.7% of Basques in all territories...

 is considered to be a remainder of the one that may have been used in Classic Lapurdian.

Koldo Zuazo conflates Lapurdian and Lower Navarrese as a single primary dialect of Basque.

External links

• Navarro-Labourdin (ISO 639-3
  ISO 639-3
  ISO 639-3:2007, Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 3: Alpha-3 code for comprehensive coverage of languages, is an international standard for language codes in the ISO 639 series. The standard describes three‐letter codes for identifying languages. It extends the ISO 639-2...
  
  : bqe) in the Ethnologue
  Ethnologue
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  report.