It is not then to the written, but to the spoken language that attention must be paid, if we would detect the modifications which the idiom of an aristocratic people may undergo when it becomes the language of a democracy.
Ez da, beraz arreta lengoaia idatzian jarri behar, mintzatuan baizik, herri aristokratiko baten hizkuntza demokrazia baten hizkuntza bilakatzean jasan ditzakeen aldaketak hauteman nahi badira.