Pierre Lhande Heguy ( eu, Pierre Allande Hegi) was a French writer. He was born in Bayonne, France on 9 July 1877 and died 17 April 1957 in Tardets,

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; for unknown reasons he was given his grandfather's surname, Lhande, as opposed to his father's surname Basagaitz.Auñamendi Entziklopedi
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Biography

At the age of 8 when Lhande's father died he moved to Sauguis-Saint-Étienne in

with his mother. A young man, he joined the

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of Bayonne but was subsequently expelled due to his pre-occupation with poetry and the Basque language. He then joined the

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of Rodez and moved to

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and later the

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with the order. After a teaching spell in El Puerto de Santa María, he returned to Belgium and was ordained in August 1910. He returned to

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in the Northern Basque Country in 1911. He would remain in the Basque Country until his death in 1957 in the Saint-Antoine à Tardets home.

Works

The author of numerous pieces of writing, he is perhaps best known for his monumental 1926 ''Dictionnaire Basque-Français'' of the Northern

Basque dialects Basque dialects are linguistic varieties of the Basque language which differ in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar from each other and from Standard Basque. Between six and nine Basque dialects have been historically distinguished: * Biscay ...

Labourdin, Lower Navarrese and Souletin.

References

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