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Aragonese (pronounced /ˌærəɡɒˈniːz/ in English, aragonés), is a Romance language now spoken by between 10,000 and 30,000 people over the valleys of the Aragón River, Sobrarbe and Ribagorza in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain. It is also colloquially known as fabla (literally, "speech"). Aragonese may refer to: Of or relating to Aragon, an autonomous community in north-eastern Spain. ... Capital Zaragoza Official language(s) Spanish Area â€“ Total â€“ % of Spain Ranked 4th 47,719 kmÂ² 9. ... Spains fifty provinces (provincias) are grouped into seventeen autonomous communities (comunidades aut nomas), in addition to two African autonomous cities (ciudades aut nomas) (Ceuta and Melilla). ... A language family is a group of languages related by descent from a common proto-language. ... For other uses, see Indo-European. ... Hypothetical distribution of languages in Iron Age Italy during the sixth century BC. The Italic subfamily is a member of the Centum branch of the Indo-European language family. ... The Romance languages (sometimes referred to as Romanic languages) are a branch of the Indo-European language family, comprising all the languages that descend from Latin, the language of the Roman Empire. ... Italo-Western redirects here. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. ... ISO 639-3 is an international standard for language codes. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (830x1162, 576 KB) Sumari Aragon languages English info from http://commons. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (830x1162, 576 KB) Sumari Aragon languages English info from http://commons. ... The Unicode Standard, Version 5. ... The Romance languages (sometimes referred to as Romanic languages) are a branch of the Indo-European language family, comprising all the languages that descend from Latin, the language of the Roman Empire. ... The River AragÃ³n or rÃo AragÃ³n is one of the tributaries to the left of the river Ebro. ... Sobrarbe is one of the comarcas (counties) in the northern part of the province of Huesca, part of the autonomous community of Aragon in Spain. ... Ribagorza is one of the historical Aragonese counties of Spain, corresponding to the present-day counties of Sobrarbe and Pallars. ... A province is a territorial unit, almost always a country subdivision. ... Huesca province Huesca is a province of northern Spain, in the northern part of the autonomous community of Aragon. ... Capital Zaragoza Official language(s) Spanish Area â€“ Total â€“ % of Spain Ranked 4th 47,719 kmÂ² 9. ...

History

Aragonese originated around the 8th century as one of many Latin dialects developed in the Pyrenees on top of a strong Basque-like substratum. The original Kingdom of Aragon (formed by the counties of Aragon, Sobrarbe and Ribagorza) was progressively expanded from the mountain ranges towards the South, pushing the Moors further south in the Reconquista and spreading the Aragonese language. (7th century — 8th century — 9th century — other centuries) Events The Iberian peninsula is taken by Arab and Berber Muslims, thus ending the Visigothic rule, and starting almost 8 centuries of Muslim presence there. ... Vulgar Latin, as in this political graffito at Pompeii, was the speech of ordinary people of the Roman Empire â€” different from the classical Latin used by the Roman elite. ... Pic de Bugatetin the NÃ©ouvielle Natural Reserve Central Pyrenees For the mountains in Victoria, Australia, see Pyrenees (Victoria). ... Basque (native name: euskara) is the language spoken by the Basque people who inhabit the Pyrenees in North-Central Spain and the adjoining region of South-Western France. ... Capital Zaragoza Area – Total – % of Spain Ranked 4th 47 719 km² 9,4% Population – Total (2003) – % of Spain – Density Ranked 11th 1 217 514 2,9% 25,51/km² Demonym – English – Spanish Aragonese aragonés Statute of Autonomy August 16, 1982 ISO 3166... For other uses, see moor. ... For other senses of this word, see Reconquista (disambiguation). ...

The dynastic union of the Catalan Counties and the Kingdom of Aragon—which formed the Aragonese Crown in the 12th century—did not result in a merging of the language forms of the two territories into a single form; Catalan continued to be spoken in the east, and Aragonese in the west. The Aragonese reconquista to the south ended in the kingdom of Murcia, that was ceded by James I of Aragon to the Kingdom of Castile as a dowry for an Aragonese princess. This article is about the Spanish autonomous community. ... Here is a list of the rulers of Aragon, now a region of north-eastern Spain. ... Catalan IPA: (catalÃ IPA: or []) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia, and in the city of LAlguer in the Italian island of Sardinia. ... This article is about the Spanish city. ... James I of Aragon. ... Coat of arms Kingdom of Castile in the 15th century. ...

The spread of Castilian, now also known as Spanish, together with the protective effect from it that Aragonese played for the Catalan language, the Castilian origin and the Trastamara dynasty and a strong similarity between Castilian and Aragonese, meant that further recession was to follow. One of the key moments in the history of Aragonese was when a king of Castilian origin was appointed in the 15th century: Ferdinand I of Aragon, also known as Ferdinand of Antequera. The House of TrastÃ¡mara was a dynasty of kings in the Iberian Peninsula, which governed in Castile from 1369 to 1504, in AragÃ³n from 1412 to 1516, in Navarre from 1425 to 1479, and in Naples from 1442 to 1501. ... Ferdinand I (of AragÃ³n and Sicily), called The Just (27 November 1380 â€“ 2 April 1416) was King of AragÃ³n and Sicily from 1412 to 1416. ...

The mutual union of Aragon and Castile and the progressive suspension of all capacity of self-rule from the 16th century meant that Aragonese, while still widely spoken, was limited to a rural and colloquial use, as the nobility chose Spanish as their symbol of power. The suppression of Aragonese reached its most dramatic point during the rule of Francisco Franco in the 20th century. Pupils were punished in schools for using it, and language politics in Francoist Spain forbade the teaching of any language that was not Spanish. â€œFrancoâ€ redirects here. ... Language politics in Francoist Spain centered on attempts in Spain under Franco to increase the dominance of Castilian (castellano), the most widely used Spanish language, over the other languages of Spain. ...

The constitutional democracy voted by the people in 1978 meant an increase in the literary works and studies conducted in and about the Aragonese language. However, it may be too late for this language.

Modern Aragonese

Today, Aragonese is still spoken natively within its core area, the Aragonese mountain ranges of the Pyrenees, in the comarcas of Somontano, Sobrarbe, and Ribagorza. These are the major cities and towns where Aragonese speakers can still be found: Huesca, Graus, Monzón, Barbastro, Fonz, Echo, Estadilla, Benasque, Campo, Sabiñánigo, Jaca, Plan, Ansó, Ayerbe, Broto, El Grado. Huesca (Aragonese Uesca, Catalan Osca) is a city in Aragon, Spain. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... The Aragonese village of MonzÃ³n is have around 16. ... Barbastro (Latin Barbastrum or Civitas Barbastrensis) is suffragan diocese of the Spanish province of Huesca. ... Benasque Benasque (BenÃ¡s, in the local dialect) is a town in the province of Huesca (Spain), located in the heart of the Pyrenees, 143 km north-east of Huesca. ... Campo is a town in the county of Ribagorza, in the province of Huesca, in Aragon, Spain. ... SabiÃ±Ã¡nigo is a municipality located in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain. ... Jaca as is viewed from the Rapitan fort. ... This article needs cleanup. ...

Aragonese is also learnt as a second language by other inhabitants of the country in areas like Huesca, Zaragoza, Ejea de los Caballeros, and Teruel. According to recent polls, altogether they only make up around 7,000 speakers. Huesca (Aragonese Uesca, Catalan Osca) is a city in Aragon, Spain. ... For other uses, see Zaragoza (disambiguation). ... Ejea de los Caballeros (Aragonese Exea) - town in Aragon, Spain. ... View of the mudÃ©jar Cathedral of Teruel Teruel is a city in Aragon, Spain, the capital of Teruel Province. ...

There are about 25-30 dialectal variants of Aragonese, the majority of which are in the province of Huesca, due to its mountainous terrain where natural isoglosses have developed around valley enclaves, and where, not surprisingly, the highest incidence of spoken Aragonese is found. Ribagorçan, is one such variant: an eastern aragonese dialect, which is transitional to Gascon, Occitan, Catalan and Castilian. Isoglosses on the Faroe Islands An isogloss is the geographical boundary of a certain linguistic feature, e. ... RibagorÃ§an is a romance dialect spoken in the Aragonese counties of Ribagorza and La Litera, in Huesca, and Alta RibagorÃ§a in LÃ©rida, CataluÃ±a. ... The Gascon language is an Occitan dialect mostly spoken in Gascony (in the French départements of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées, Landes, Gers, Gironde, a part of Lot-et-Garonne, a part of Haute-Garonne, and a part of Ariège), and in the small Spanish... Occitan, or langue doc is a Romance language characterized by its richness, variability, and by the intelligibility of its dialects. ...

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Aragonese grammar is similar to the grammar of other Iberian Romance languages, such as Spanish and Catalan. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Catalan IPA: (catalÃ IPA: or []) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia, and in the city of LAlguer in the Italian island of Sardinia. ...

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