Euskera Ikerketa Aldizkaria 2025, 70, 2

This issue covers a wide range of topics, several of which focus on the Northern Basque Country: the potential contributions of demolinguistics to language policy; the contrasts and nuances of poetry from 1940 to the present; the erosion of the familiar feminine allocutive form of address noketa in Lower Navarre (Ortzaize); and the informal spoken Basque of Labourd’s youth and surrounding areas. In addition, the volume includes a study on the rhythm of Basque dialects, together with two papers addressing issues related to primary school: one exploring the interplay between organised leisure activities and informal Basque usage, and another examining informal peer-group speech as an object of study within the school context. Ethnolinguistics also finds its place in this issue, with an article focusing on the nomenclature of the months.

Furthermore, the «Notes» section features a review of the career of the Biscayan ethnographer Ander Manterola and an ironic reflection on the condition of subordinated languages, from the perspective of the Catalan language. The book review section, for its part, includes discussions on the current situation of the Aragonese language and on the potential benefits of applying thermodynamics to literary studies.