Landese dialect

Dialect of the Gascon language From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

Pronunciation[parˈla ˈnøɣə]
RegionWest of Landes, part of Chalosse, Bayonne
EthnicityGascons
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Landese dialect
Maritime Gascon
parlar negue
Pronunciation[parˈla ˈnøɣə]
RegionWest of Landes, part of Chalosse, Bayonne
EthnicityGascons
Dialects
  • gascon de Bayonne
Occitan alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
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Reorganization of vowel phonemes

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

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

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

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