Navarro-Aragonese was a
Romance language spoken south of the middle
Pyrenees and in part of the
Ebro River basin in the Middle Ages. The language extended over the
County of Aragón,
Sobrarbe,
Ribagorza, the southern plains of
Navarre on both banks of the
Ebro including
La Rioja and the eastern fringes of Navarre (
Leire and around). The language was also spoken in major towns of
Navarre (in
Estella and
Pamplona too) in a multilingual environment where
Basque was the natural language, used by most of the people,
Occitan was spoken by the
Franks in their ethnic boroughs, while
Hebrew was used for written purposes in the
aljamas along with Basque and Navarro-Aragonese as
vernaculars in their respective linguistic regions.