Alavese dialect

Alavese
Arabako euskara
Native to	Spain
Region	Álava
Extinct	Unknown
Language family	Basque (language isolate) Alavese
Dialects	Western, Eastern
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Approximate extent of the Alavese dialect of Basque between the 16th and 18th century[1]

Alavese (Basque: Arabako euskara, Spanish: euskera alavés) is an extinct dialect of the Basque language spoken formerly in Álava, one of the provinces of the Basque Country of Spain. The modern-day communities of Aramaio and Legutio along the northern border with Biscay do not speak the Alavese dialect but a variant of the Biscayan dialect instead and while overall some 25% of people in Álava today are Basque speakers, the majority of these are speakers of Standard Basque who acquired Basque via the education system or moved there from other parts of the Basque Country.