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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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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 ...
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It is a language continuum. Those people speaking Astur-Leonese closer to somewhere where Castilian is spoken, speak more like Castilian, and those closer to Galicia or some Portuguese regions, more similar to Portuguese. If you are interested, there are some videos in the youtube channel "Wikitongues" where you can listen to different people ...
Asturian or Asturian language is the autochthonous Romance spoken between the linguistic areas of Galician and Spanish (see Figure 1 and Figure 2). It is spoken in the autonomous community of the Principality of Asturias (the area where it is most widely used), in the north east of the Spanish provinces of León and Zamora and in the area of ...
The variety crosses the Asturian and Leonese administrative borders and is spoken by towns on either side. It's called Paḷḷuezu by its speakers. Here's an example of Alistanu, which is another Western kind of Astur-Leonese or Leonese, spoken in León. Just across the border from Mirandese (which it sounds very similar to).
Aug 2, 2017 · Extract. Asturian (ISO 639), also known as Bable, Asturiano, Asturianu, Astur-Leonese or Leonese, is the vernacular language of Principality of Asturias, an autonomous community of just over one million inhabitants located in Northern Spain. Asturian is spoken by approximately 100,000 individuals within Asturias plus a few thousand more outside ...
For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. 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 ...
