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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.
- Leonese people
The Leonese language (Llingua Llïonesa in Leonese) developed...
- Asturleonese language
Asturleonese (Astur-Leonese; Asturian: Asturlleonés;...
- Asturian language
Linguistic description. Asturian is one of the Astur-Leonese...
- Leonese people
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 . Leonese is recognised by the UN as "seriously endangered" and is officially recognised by Castile and León .
- 20,000–50,000 (2008)
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Leonese is a set of vernacular Romance language varieties currently spoken in northern and western portions of the historical region of León in Spain and a few adjoining areas in Portugal. In this narrow sense, Leonese is distinct from the dialects grouped under the Asturian language. There is no real linguistic division, though; it is only a purely political and identitary division, as ...
The Leonese royal arms with crest (after the union with Castile) Though the kings of Castile and León initially continued to take the title King of León as the superior title, and to use a lion as part of their standard, power in fact became centralized in Castile, as exemplified by the Leonese language's replacement by Castilian. The Kingdom ...
