Asturian
Conjugate VerbsFacts
- Language: Asturian
- Alternate names: Astur-Leonese, Asturian-Leonese, Asturianu
- Language code: ast
- Language family: Indo-European, Classical Indo-European, Italic, Latino-Faliscan, Latinic, Imperial Latin, Romance, Italo-Western Romance, Western Romance, Shifted Western Romance, Southwestern Shifted Romance, West Ibero-Romance, Asturo-Leonese
- Dialects: Leonese.
- Number of speakers: 125039
- Vulnerability: risk [Read more...]
- Script: Latin script
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Introduction
Asturian belongs to a wider linguistic group called Asturian-Leones, which was the language of the ancient kingdom of León. Its greatest expansion in the XII th century occupied today's Spanish provinces of Asturias, León, Zamora, Salamanca, the western half of Cáceres an Badajoz, the Portuguese region of Miranda do Douro and the eastern bank of Cantabria. Asturian-Leonese never had a unified linguistic standard and several dialects were spoken all over this area.