Edited sentence: In the southern parts of Álava, specially in the Ebro valley, the Latin tongue was firmly established in the first centuries AD, and this area was one of the penetration vias that the Latin in the Cantabrian Mountains.It scored its peak at the 1992 election with a 22% of the votes.Most scholars agree that the Basque language was never spoken in Encartaciones: In Pre-Roman times that area was populated by Indo-European tribes such as the Cantabrians and the Autrigones, and after the Roman conquest it was slowly Latinized.The traditional language of that area is montañés, a dialect of the Astur-Leonese language that was gradually eroded by Castilian Spanish, which is today the language of the Encartaciones population although some Astur-Leonese features still remain in the daily life speech.There are at least two regions in the Basque Country Autonomous Community whose traditional language is not Basque: Encartaciones in Biscay, and most of the territory of Álava.Today, the culture of that region is more similar to that of La Rioja than to the culture of Biscay and Guizpúzcoa, and there was some years ago a political party, Unidad Alavesa, which pleaded for the secession from the Basque Country as a new Spanish autonomous community