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Cafundó ( Portuguese pronunciation: [kafũˈdɔ] ), or Cupópia ( [kuˈpɔpjɐ] ), is an argot ("secret language") spoken in the Brazilian village of Cafundó, São Paulo, now a suburb of Salto de Pirapora. The language is structurally similar to Portuguese, with many Bantu words in its lexicon. Cafundó was at first thought to be an African ...
Fala. Area of the Fala language. Fala ("Speech", also called Xalimego [2]) is a Western Romance language commonly classified in the Galician-Portuguese subgroup, with some traits from Leonese, spoken in Spain by about 10,500 people, of whom 5,500 live in a valley of the northwestern part of Extremadura near the border with Portugal.
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 ...
Mirandese has a distinct phonology, morphology and syntax. It has its roots in the local Vulgar Latin spoken in the northern Iberian Peninsula . 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 ...
Galician, also known as Galego, is a Western Ibero-Romance language. Around 2.4 million people have at least some degree of competence in the language, mainly in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it has official status along with Spanish. The language is also spoken in some border zones of the neighbouring Spanish regions of Asturias and Castile and León ...
Galician-Portuguese is an Ibero-Romance language that originated in the northwestern Iberian Peninsula, in a territory created in 216 ce by a decree of emperor Caracalla, the autonomous province of the Roman Empire, Gallaecia (see Figure 1 ). Open in new tab. Figure 1. Map of Gallaecia in 216. The Roman conquest and pacification of Gallaecia ...
The Extremaduran language ( Extremaduran: estremeñu) is the native language of Northwestern province of Cáceres. About 150,000 people speak it in Extremadura. This language is very similar to Leonese language and Asturian or Bable, spoken in other territories that once made up the Kingdom of León. Is called artu estremeñu (High extremaduran ...
