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Wikipedia . Proper noun [edit] Astur-Leonese. A Romance language, or language family, historically spoken in northwestern Spain (mostly modern-day Asturias and León)
Astur-Leonese—also called Asturian-Leonese or Asturian or Leonese—(in its own language: asturllionés, asturianu, llionés and popularly bable) is a Romance language spoken in part of Spain (around Asturias, northwestern León and western Cantabria) and part of Portugal (around the boundary city of Miranda do Douro).
Asturleonese (Asturian: Asturlleonés; Spanish: Asturleonés; Portuguese: Asturo-leonês; Mirandese: Asturlhionés) is a Romance language spoken primarily in northwestern Spain, namely in the historical regions and Spain's modern-day autonomous communities of Asturias, northwestern Castile and León and Cantabria, and also in a small neighbouring area of Portugal. The name of the language is ...
Phylogenetically, Asturleonese belongs to the West Iberian branch of the Romance languages that gradually developed from Vulgar Latin in the old Kingdom of León.The Asturleonese group is typically subdivided into three linguistic areas (Western, Central and Eastern) [3] that form the vertical Asturleonese region, from Asturias, through León, to the north of Portugal and Extremadura.
Pelagius (Spanish: Pelayo; [1] c. 685 – 737) was a Hispano-Visigoth nobleman who founded the Kingdom of Asturias in 718. [2] Pelagius is credited with initiating the Reconquista, the Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors, and establishing the Asturian monarchy, making him the forefather of all the future Iberian monarchies, including the Kings of Castile, the Kings of ...
A Leonese speaker from Peñaparda in El Rebollar, recorded in Salamanca, Spain. Leonese forms part of the Asturleonese linguistic group along with dialects of Asturian.The division between Asturian and Leonese is extra-linguistic, as the main divisions within the Asturleonese complex are between eastern and western varieties, rather than between varieties spoken in Asturias and Leon.
Galician–Portuguese (Galician: galego–portugués or galaico–portugués; Portuguese: galego–português or galaico–português), also known as Old Galician–Portuguese, Old Galician or Old Portuguese, Medieval Galician or Medieval Portuguese when referring to the history of each modern language, was a West Iberian Romance language spoken in the Middle Ages, in the northwest area of the ...
