Wiki Languages: Asturian language (Asturianu)
Updated: 17-07-2024 by Wikilanguages.net
| Language: Asturian (Asturian language) | Local name: Asturianu |
| Language code: ast | Display language: Simple English (simple)|
| Speak area: Spain | Classification: Romance |
| Country: Spain | Second language: |
| Usage: regional | Wiki language for Asturian language |
Dictionary for Asturian (Asturianu) in Simple English
| English | Asturian |
| Asturianu | Simple English |
| Asturian | |
|---|---|
| Astur-Leonese | |
| asturianu | |
| Native to | Spain |
| Region | Autonomous Community of Asturias |
Native speakers | 110,000 (2007)[1] 450,000 L2 speakers (1994) |
Language family | Indo-European
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| Dialects |
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Writing system | Latin |
| Official status | |
| Regulated by | Academy of the Asturian Language (Asturian) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | |
| ISO 639-3 | ast |
| ELP | Asturian |
| Linguasphere | 51-AAA-ca |
 Linguistic area of asturian language | |
The Asturian language is the native language of Asturias. Between 200,000 and 600,000 people speak it in Asturias.[2][3] This language is very similar to Leonese Language, spoken in other territories that once made up the Kingdom of León (León, Western Zamora, Salamanca and Northwestern Cáceres where is called extremaduran), and to Mirandes Language, spoken in Miranda do Douro in Portugal. In Asturias, primary and secondary students can choose to study it.
References
- ↑Asturian at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ↑"«Si los asturianos no creen en el bable no tendrá futuro aunque los políticos y las leyes digan otra cosa»". September 15, 2014.
- ↑Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (October 16, 2017). "III Encuesta Sociolingüística de Asturias"(PDF).