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Leonese forms part of the Asturleonese dialect continuum with dialects of Asturian. The division between Asturian and Leonese is artificial, as the main divisions within the Asturleonese complex are between eastern and western varieites, rather than between varieties spoken in Asturias and Leon.
The Leonese ( Leonese: Llïoneses; Spanish: Leoneses) are a subgroup of Spaniards, native to León in Spain. The Leonese Kingdom was an independent kingdom in the Middle Ages until 1230 when it was joined to the Kingdom of Castile (from 1296 to 1301 the Kingdom of León was again independent); after the re-union with Castile in 1301 it remained ...
Number of native speakers of each Romance language, as fractions of the total 690 million (2007) The Romance language most widely spoken natively today is Spanish, followed by Portuguese, French, Italian and Romanian, which together cover a vast territory in Europe and beyond, and work as official and national languages in dozens of countries.
For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. Leonese language ( llionés in Leonese) is the language of León and Zamora, both in Spain, and Bragança, in Portugal. A Romance language, Leonese was the language of the Kingdom of León in the Middle Ages .
Castile and León is a landlocked region, bordered by Portugal as well as by the Spanish autonomous communities of Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, the Basque Country, La Rioja, Aragon, Castilla–La Mancha, the Community of Madrid and Extremadura. Chiefly comprising the northern half of the Inner Plateau, it is surrounded by mountain barriers (the Cantabrian Mountains to the North, the Sistema ...
Old Leonese is a West Iberian language spoken in the Kingdom of León until 1300. Old Leonese and Asturleonese are highlighted in green.
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Asturleonese is classified as Definitely Endangered by the. UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. Asturleonese (Astur-Leonese; Asturian: Asturlleonés; Spanish: Asturleonés; Portuguese: Asturo-leonês; Mirandese: Asturlhionés) is a Romance language or language family spoken in northwestern Spain and northeastern Portugal, namely in ...
