Gipuzkoan

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Gipuzkoan is a dialect of the Basque language spoken in the Guipuzcoa (Basque: Gipuzkoa) province of the Basque Country, Spain. It exists as a dual language status with Castilian (Spanish) in the region where it is spoken. Gipuzkoan vocabulary is used heavily in Batua, a standardised dialect of the Basque language used in teaching and the media.

The guipuzcoano or gipuzkera is a dialect from euskera, also known as central dialect, which is spoken in the central part of Guipúzcoa , as well than in Sakana and (Navarra).

1 Extension
2 Guipuzcoanos variants
3 Relevance
4 See also

[edit] Extension

The guipuzcoano it is not spoken en every Guipúzcoa. Mainly on the bordier of the River River Deva, from Salinas de Léniz till Elgóibar it's spoken vizcaíno dialect. And in Oyarzun and also on the limiting frontiers of the River Bidasoa, the dialect alto-navarro it's spoken. However the frontier between guipuzcoano and alto-navarro it's desappearing over Guipúzcoa, because euskera batúa has taken a broder space and imposing little by little among young basques.

[edit] Guipuzcoanos variants

As for the actual ""guipuzcoano"" there are mainly four variants:

Variant from Beterri (from Tolosa zone, till San Sebastián).
Variant from Goyerri.
Variant from the zone of Urola (from Zarauz to Motrico).
Gipuzcoano of Navarra (Burunda, Echarri-Aranaz).

[edit] Relevance

The ""guipuzcoano"" has been one of the main historical dialects of basque, and it has been the literature language from the XVIII century towards. It has a notorial relation with the labortano and the higher-navarro.