Asturleonese language

Asturleonese
Asturllionés
Geographic
distribution		Spain (Asturias, northwestern Castile and León)
Northeastern Portugal (Terra de Miranda)
Some authors include Cantabria and parts of Extremadura
Linguistic classificationIndo-European
Subdivisions
Language codes
ISO 639-2 / 5ast
ISO 639-3ast
Glottologastu1244  Asturo-Leonese
extr1243  Extremaduran

Asturleonese (Asturian: Asturlleonés) is a Romance language spoken mainly in the autonomous communities of Asturias, northwestern León and Cantabria, and also in some parts of Portugal. Asturleonese is a dialect continuum, speakers of Leonese, Cantabrian and Asturian (Mirandese in Portugal) are mutually intelligible, meaning they can understand each other. Asturleonese has been classified by UNESCO as an endangered language, because it is being replaced by the Spanish language.

References

  1. ↑ Menéndez Pidal, Ramón (2006). El dialecto leonés (Ed. commemorativa ed.). [León]: El Búho viajero. ISBN 84-933781-6-X. OCLC 85532738.
  2. ↑ Muñiz-Cachón, Carmen (2019-12-31). "Prosody: A feature of languages or a feature of speakers?: Asturian and Castilian in the center of Asturias". Spanish in Context. 16 (3): 462–474. doi:10.1075/sic.00047.mun. hdl:10651/55364. ISSN 1571-0718. S2CID 214477928.