Navarrese Romance

Navarrese Romance
Native to	Northern Spain
Region	Central and southern Navarre
Ethnicity	Navarrese
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latinic Romance Italo-Western Western Romance Western Iberian Navarro-Aragonese Navarrese Romance
Early forms	Old Latin Vulgar Latin Proto-Romance (unclassified) Navarro-Aragonese
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

Navarrese Romance, or simply Navarrese, are varieties of Ibero-Romance spoken in the former Kingdom of Navarre. It is one of three Navarro-Aragonese dialects (the other two Old Riojan and the Aragonese dialects).

Orthography

Much like many other Romance languages, Navarrese is written in the Latin script with its own variations.

Medieval spellings for phonemes in Navarrese

Phoneme	Spelling(s)	Usage notes
[wa]	⟨oa⟩
[ʎ]	⟨yll⟩, ⟨ill⟩, ⟨lli⟩, ⟨yl⟩, ⟨ll⟩, ⟨l⟩, ⟨lg⟩, ⟨li⟩, ⟨il⟩
[ɲ]	⟨ynn⟩, ⟨yn⟩, ⟨nni⟩, ⟨jnn⟩, ⟨inn⟩, ⟨nn⟩, ⟨ng⟩, ⟨yn⟩, ⟨ny⟩, ⟨in⟩, ⟨ni⟩
[ʃ]	⟨x⟩, ⟨xc⟩, ⟨sc⟩, ⟨xs⟩, ⟨iss⟩, ⟨yss⟩, ⟨ss⟩	⟨x⟩ is most commonly found in texts of non-native speakers and sparsely in texts written by native speakers.
[t͡ʃ]	⟨ch⟩, ⟨z⟩, ⟨ç⟩, ⟨s⟩, ⟨g⟩	⟨ch⟩ is the most common spelling.
[t͡s]	⟨ts⟩, ⟨tz⟩, ⟨ç⟩, ⟨z⟩	[t͡s] was represented by ⟨ç⟩ and ⟨z⟩ in word-final position.