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A Leonese speaker from Peñaparda in El Rebollar, recorded in Salamanca, Spain. Leonese (Leonese: llionés, Asturian: lleonés) is a set of vernacular Romance language varieties currently spoken in northern and western portions of the historical region of León in Spain (the modern provinces of León, Zamora, and Salamanca) and a few adjoining areas in Portugal, where it is known as Mirandese ...
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 ...
Mirandese is a descendant of the Astur-Leonese variety spoken in the Kingdom of León and has both archaisms and innovations that differentiate it from the modern varieties of Astur-Leonese spoken in Spain. In recognition of these differences, and due to its political isolation from the rest of the Astur-Leonese speaking territory, Mirandese ...
Literature written in Leonese started in the Middle Ages and is still written today. The first written text in Leonese is the Nodicia of Kesos (959 or 974), found in Ardón. Other works in Leonese include the Fueru de Llión , Fueru de Salamanca , Fueru Xulgu , Códice d'Alfonsu XI , Disputa d'Elena y María and Llibru d'Alixandre .
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The variety crosses the Asturian and Leonese administrative borders and is spoken by towns on either side. It's called Paḷḷuezu by its speakers. Here's an example of Alistanu, which is another Western kind of Astur-Leonese or Leonese, spoken in León. Just across the border from Mirandese (which it sounds very similar to).
León, Spain. Flag. coat of arms. León ( Llión in Leonese language) is a city and municipality in León province in the northwest of Spain. About 135,000 people live there.
