Landese dialect
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| Landese dialect | |
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| Maritime Gascon | |
| parlar negue | |
| Pronunciation | [parˈla ˈnøɣə] |
| Region | West of Landes, part of Chalosse, Bayonne |
| Ethnicity | Gascons |
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| Occitan alphabet | |
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| ISO 639-3 | – |
Landese (Maritime Gascon, or parlar negre, which means "black speech" in English) is a dialect of the Gascon language, spoken in the south-west part of Landes of Gascony, part of Chalosse and around Bayonne (Aquitaine, metropolitan France). Landese is an endangered dialect as are several other Occitan languages.
Reorganization of vowel phonemes
[edit]The main feature of Landese is its propensity to pronounce ⟨e⟩ as /ø/ instead of /e/, and both final ⟨-e⟩ and ⟨-a⟩ as /ə/. Thus there is a migration of phonemes from the general Gascon to new phonemes in Landese.
Works
[edit]The poet, novelist and essayist Bernat Manciet (1923 - 2005) remained faithful to the local Gascon speaking of his native Landes region where he lived a large part of his life.
The erudite Vincent Foix (1857 - 1932) has written a dictionary[1] on the Gascon from Chalosse and other parts of Landes.
Sources
[edit]Part of content in this edit is based on a partial translation from the existing French Wikipedia article at fr:Parlar negre (see its history for attribution) which cites the following sources:
- Philippe Lartigue, Le vocalisme du gascon maritime, D.E.A. de Sciences du Langage, University of Toulouse-Le Mirail, June 2004
- Pierre Moureau, Dictionnaire du patois de La Teste, 1870; 2nd edition: Dictionnaire gascon-français, français-gascon: suivant les parlers maritimes, Princi Negre, 1997, ISBN 2-905007-37-0
- Pierre Rectoran, Le gascon maritime de Bayonne et du Bas-Adour, Jean Curutchet, 1996, ISBN 2-904348-60-3
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Foix, Vincent (November 2003). Dictionnaire gascon-français [Gascon-French dictionnary] (in French and Occitan). Bordeaux: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux. ISBN 2-86781-302-6.
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