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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.
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List of varieties of Chinese. Distribution of Chinese dialect groups within the Greater China Region. This video explains the differences in pronunciation and vocabulary among Mandarin Dialects ( Std. Mandarin, Sichuan Mandarin and NE Mandarin) and Cantonese.
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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 ...
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.
Classification. Dialectologist Jerry Norman estimated that there are hundreds of mutually unintelligible varieties of Chinese. [24] These varieties form a dialect continuum, in which differences in speech generally become more pronounced as distances increase, although there are also some sharp boundaries.
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The Dictionary of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language defines Astur-Leonese as a term of linguistic classification: the Romance dialect originating in Asturias and in the ancient Kingdom of León as a result of the local evolution of Latin, while it defines Leonese in geographical terms: the variety of Spanish spoken in Leonese territory.
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.
