If Basque gets extinct during the dark ages

If Basque gets extinct during the dark ages? What will be the effect of this in Navarro-Aragonese,Occitan(inc. Catalan and Valencian) and Castillian.
 

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If Basque gets extinct during the dark ages? What will be the effect of this in Navarro-Aragonese,Occitan(inc. Catalan and Valencian) and Castillian.

If this happens in, say, 1400, the effects are not massive. There is an "ultracastilian" on the southern side of the Pyrenees, with practically no f's and some funny grammar and loan words, given Castilian is just Basquified Leonese. In France even less effects, Gascon is already very Basque influenced, it will probably be a little more so.
 
If this happens in, say, 1400, the effects are not massive. There is an "ultracastilian" on the southern side of the Pyrenees, with practically no f's and some funny grammar and loan words, given Castilian is just Basquified Leonese. In France even less effects, Gascon is already very Basque influenced, it will probably be a little more so.
Actually, the language that will replace Basque is Navarro-Aragonese macrolanguage.
 

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I just said that it is Navarro-Aragonese which will replace Basque in spain if it gets extinct in the dark ages.

Sorry, I misread this as middle ages when i first posted. Post 1200, it would definitely be replaced by Castilian rather than Navarro Aragonese. But the exact linguistic consequences earlier would depend on why Basque died out.

How do you propose it happens?
 
Sorry, I misread this as middle ages when i first posted. Post 1200, it would definitely be replaced by Castilian rather than Navarro Aragonese. But the exact linguistic consequences earlier would depend on why Basque died out.

How do you propose it happens?

I'm guessing what he/she proposes is that the Basque language dies out because of the inferiority to other languages. So basically i'm suggesting he/she means "What happens to languages like Castillian, Navarro-Aragonese, etc. if the Basque people stop speaking their language and begin speaking those?". ;)

If that is the case, then i'm sure there will, indeed, be alot more Basque loanwords in those languages. And most likely a variety of dialects in these languages too.

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Castilian was born in an area of Basque speakers and complaints about the Basque Country led to this region fall into the hands of Castile in 1200. Furthermore, the navarro language is phagocytized by Castilian so it is practically a dead language.

If the Basque disappears in the late Middle Ages, I think that it would be replaced by castillian and if the Basque disappears in the early Middle Ages, I still think that the castillian could be the language and anyway, the castillian language would be the present language of Euskadi.

At the end you only destroy part of the best of the Spanish heritage. Even I should exchange the matter of this thread to something like this: What if the Castillian language never borns and they still speak in basque?:rolleyes:Basque could have been imposed on the peninsula?
 
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