El castellano en documentos del siglo XIX: testimonios de manos inhábiles

Abstract

The analysis of a set of ‘war bonds’ written in Biscay in early nineteenth century reveals the presence of characteristic features of the writing of unskilled hands, as well as gra-phic and morphosyntactic phenomena that can be interpreted in light of their Basque-Romanic origin. Given the chronology of the documents, both aspects are highly significant for the his-tory of the Spanish language in general, and more specifically for the history of Castilian and its being in contact with the Basque language.