" El primer idioma eusquera "teorías megalómanas sobre la lengua vasca en un manuscrito de 1778

  1. Xabier Iñarra San Vicente 1
  1. 1 Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
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    Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

    Lejona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/000xsnr85

Book:
Los caminos de la Historia Moderna: Presente y porvenir de la investigación
  1. Ofelia Rey Castelao (coord.)
  2. Francisco Cebreiro Ares

Publisher: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

ISBN: 9788419679314

Year of publication: 2023

Pages: 1042-1051

Type: Book chapter

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Abstract

In this paper we present an anonymous 1778 manuscript addressed to the land-owner from Guipuzcoa Ramón María de Zurbano, in which the author asserts that Basque is the tongue in which God spoke to Adam and, thus, the very first language of Humankind. This theory, dubbed Basque-Angelism by Julio de Urquijo, was shared by the soldier Juan de Perochegui and, by the early 19th century, clustered among its supporters some writers such as Erro or Astarloa. Despite its presumed archaism, we consider that this point of view can be read as a development of the myths supporting the foral system in the Basque provinces, influenced by an enlightened interest in elucidating the origins of Humankind beyond the orthodox Biblical narrative.

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