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Leonese. Galician. The Region of León, Leonese region or Leonese Country ( Leonese: País Llionés, Spanish: región de León and Asturian: rexón de Llión) is a historic territory defined by the 1833 Spanish administrative organisation. The Leonese region encompassed the provinces of Salamanca, Zamora, and León, now part of the modern ...
Aug 19, 2022 · The Asturian-Leonese languages are shown in blue in this map of the languages of the Iberian peninsula. 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 ...
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 ...
Galician is a Romance language that evolved from Vulgar Latin, the Latin of common people in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The area is now Galicia, the western parts of Asturias and Castile-Leon and the Norte region in northern Portugal . Galician took most of its words from Latin, many from Judeo ...
Andalusi Romance, also called Mozarabic [a] or Ajami, [2] refers to the varieties of Ibero-Romance that developed in Al-Andalus, the parts of the medieval Iberian Peninsula under Islamic control. Romance, or vernacular Late Latin, was the common tongue for the great majority of the Iberian population at the time of the Umayyad conquest in the ...
Genoese, locally called zeneise or zeneize ( Ligurian: [zeˈnejze] ), is the prestige dialect of Ligurian, spoken in and around the Italian city of Genoa, the capital of Liguria . A majority of remaining speakers of Genoese are elderly. Several associations are dedicated to keeping the dialect alive, examples of which are A Compagna in Genoa ...
Juan del Encina (July 12, 1468 – 1529/1530) [1] was a composer, poet, priest, and playwright, [2] : 535 often credited as the joint-father (even "founder" or "patriarch") of Spanish drama, alongside Gil Vicente. His birth name was Juan de Fermoselle. [1] He spelled his name Enzina, but this is not a significant difference; it is two spellings ...
