Goizueta Basque

• Published in: Journal of the International Phonetic Association Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 113 - 127
• Main Authors: Hualde, José Ignacio, Lujanbio, Oihana, Zubiri, Juan Joxe
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01-04-2010; Cambridge University Press for the International Phonetic Association
• Subjects: Basque language; Children; Consonants; Descriptive studies and applied theories; Dialects; Diphthongs; Fricative consonants; ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE IPA; Language; Lexical stress; Linguistics; Palatal consonants; Phonemes; Phonetics; Regional dialects; Solmization; Spanish language; Vowels; United States > US; Illinois; Dialect; Phonetics; Basque; International Phonetic Alphabet
• ISSN: 0025-1003; 1475-3502
• DOI: 10.1017/S0025100309990260

Goizueta is a small town in northwestern Navarre, Spain, bordering Gipuzkoa. According to the most recent official figures, it has slightly over 800 inhabitants, about 95% of whom speak Basque (2001, Instituto de Estadística de Navarra). All inhabitants (except for young children) also speak Spanish. In the school system standard Basque and, to a lesser extent, Spanish are used. Older speakers (those born before 1970 or so) were educated exclusively in Spanish. The local Basque dialect, however, enjoys very high prestige among its speakers, and this is the linguistic variety that is most commonly used in everyday interaction within the town.