Resumen de Lengua ribagorzana y lengua occitana: una relación de hondo calado
José Antonio Saura Rami, Chuan Carlos Bueno Chueca
Ribagorzan language and Occitan language: a deep relationship. The fact that Pallars and Ribagorza belonged to the Tolosan county during the High Middle Ages (8th-9th centuries) has imbued the Ribagorzan language with a deep Gallo-Romance turn. This language was on the way to becoming another Ibero-Romance dialect within the vast continuum which shapes up from West Asturias to, at least, the Pallars and Valle de Arán (along with its special toponymic strata), and whose features were definitely changed by that significant historical fact related to the establishment of the Marca Hispánica. So, on the basis of the analysis of Altorribagorzan toponymy, medieval cartularies from the 9th to 11th centuries (written in the monasteries of Alaón and Obarra, as well as in Roda’s cathedral) and the present living language, we offer in this paper some data pointing to that ancient and productive connection.
