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Encyclopedia > Cantabrian language
Cantabrian
Montañés, Cántabru
Spoken in: Spain (the autonomous communities of Cantabria .
Total speakers: undefined
Language family: Indo-European
 Italic
  Romance
   Italo-Western
    Gallo-Iberian
     Ibero-Romance
      West Iberian
       Cantabrian 
Writing system: Latin alphabet 
Official status
Official language of: none
Regulated by: No regulated
Language codes
ISO 639-1: -
ISO 639-2: -
ISO 639-3: -

Cantabrian language or Mountain language is the name received the language used in the West of Cantabria and some zones of the Valley of Pas and the Valley of Soba, in its Eastern zone. 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). ... Anthem: Himno de Cantabria Capital Santander Official language(s) Spanish Area  â€“ Total  â€“ % of Spain Ranked 15th  5,321 km²  1. ... Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ... The Indo-European languages comprise a family of several hundred related languages and dialects [1], including most of the major languages of Europe, the Americas as well as many spoken in the Indian subcontinent (South Asia), the Iranian plateau (Southwest Asia), and Central Asia. ... The Italic subfamily is a member of the Centum branch of the Indo-European language family. ... The Romance languages, a major branch of the Indo-European language family, comprise all languages that descended from Latin, the language of the Roman Empire. ... Italo-Western is the largest sub-group of Romance languages. ... Gallo-Romance languages Gallo-Italian languages Lombard Piedmontese Emilian-Romagnol Venetian Ligurian Gallo-Rhaetian languages Oïl languages(including French) Burgundian Champenois Franc-Comtois French Gallo Lorrain Norman Anglo-Norman Channel Island Norman Auregnais Dgèrnésiais Jèrriais Sercquiais Picard Poitevin-Saintongeais Walloon Rhaetian languages Friulian Ladin Romansh *Franco... The formation of Iberian Romance languages followed more or less this process: A common Latin/Romance language with dialectal differences was spoken throughout the ancient Roman Empire. ... West Iberian language is the subcategory of Romance languages, including Spanish and Portugese. ... Writing systems of the world today. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2:1998 Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 2: Alpha-3 code Twenty-two of the languages have two three-letter codes: a code for bibliographic use (ISO 639-2/B) a code for terminological use (ISO 639-2/T). ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ... For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words see here. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone meaning sound, voice) is the study of sounds and the human voice. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... This chart shows concisely the most common way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is applied to represent the English language. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Anthem: Himno de Cantabria Capital Santander Official language(s) Spanish Area  â€“ Total  â€“ % of Spain Ranked 15th  5,321 km²  1. ...


It is a transition language that can be considered either a dialect of Asturian or an ancient dialect of Castilian. Astur-Leonese is a Romance language group of the West Iberian group, spoken in the Spanish provinces of Asturias (where it is called Asturian, asturianu, or Bable), León, Zamora and Salamanca (where it is called Leonese, llïonés), and in Portugal (Miranda do Douro) where it is called... This article is about the international language known as Spanish. ...


The Cantabrian has two subdialects: Western and the Eastern. The dividing zone between both variants is between the Saja river and the Pas. Pas dialect is the Eastern variant with the particularitity of being specially well preserved.

Dialectal Map of Cantabria: ██ Liébana: Reminiscence of Leonese ██ Nansa, Saja, Besaya (Nucleus of Cantabrian): Characteristic mountain phonetic, archaisms, influences of common Latin ██ Pas: Substrates of Leonese, characteristic phonetic from Pas, archaisms, influences of common Latin ██ Trasmiera, Asón: Own dialectals shades ██ Western coast: Substrates of Astur-Leonese and Cantabrian ██ Agüera: Tenuous Basque sediments ██ Campoo: Old Castilian and Cantabrian reminiscences
Dialectal Map of Cantabria:
██ Liébana: Reminiscence of Leonese ██ Nansa, Saja, Besaya (Nucleus of Cantabrian): Characteristic mountain phonetic, archaisms, influences of common Latin ██ Pas: Substrates of Leonese, characteristic phonetic from Pas, archaisms, influences of common Latin ██ Trasmiera, Asón: Own dialectals shades ██ Western coast: Substrates of Astur-Leonese and Cantabrian ██ Agüera: Tenuous Basque sediments ██ Campoo: Old Castilian and Cantabrian reminiscences

Leonese (Llïonés in Leonese) is a Romance language spoken in some parts of the provinces of León, Zamora and Salamanca in Spain. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... Astur-Leonese or Bable (Asturianu in Asturian, Llïonés in Leonese) is a Romance language spoken in some parts of the provinces of Asturias, León, Zamora and Salamanca in Spain, and in the area of Miranda de Douro in Portugal (where it is officially recognized as Mirandese). ... 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. ... Castilian is a noun and adjective that refers to the region and former kingdom of Spain; in particular, it refers to the language of this region, and is therefore considered by many to be a synonym of Spanish, though with different nuances. ...

Comparation of close languages

Extract of L'últimu home in Asturian


Un españíu fizo tremar el fayéu. El ñarbatu esnaló lloñe. L'esguil espaeció nel ñeru. Hebo otru españíu, y darréu otru. L'home, entós, mientres cayía coles manes abiertes, los güeyos nel infinitu y el so cuerpu remanando per tolos llaos abonda sangre, glayó una pallabra, una pallabra namás, que resonó y güei sigue resonando na biesca y en toa Asturies: «¡Llibertá!».


Translation to Cantabrian


Un españíu ḥizo temblar el ḥayal. El miruellu voló largu. L'esquilu esmanó nel ñial. Hebo otru españíu, y darréu otru. L'hombri, entós, mientris cayía conas manos abiertas, los güeḥos nel sinfinitu y el su cuerpu esvarciando por tolos laos sangri n'abondu, glarió una parabra, una parabra namás, que retingló y hui sigui retinglando ena viesca y en toa Asturias: «¡Libertá!».


Translation to Castilian


Un estallido hizo temblar el hayedo. El mirlo voló lejos. La ardilla desapareció en el nido. Hubo otro estallido, y luego otro. El hombre, entonces, mientras caía con las manos abiertas, los ojos en el infinito y su cuerpo vertiendo por todas partes mucha sangre, gritó una palabra, sólo una palabra, que resonó y hoy sigue resonando en el bosque y en toda Asturias: «¡Libertad!».


(An outbreak made shake the beech forest. Mir flew far. Squirrel disappeared in the nest. There was another outbreak, and soon another one. The man, then, while he fell openhanded, the eyes in the infinite and its body spilling throughout much blood, he shouted a word, only one word, that resonated and today continues resonating in the forest and in all Asturias: “ Freedom!».)


External links

  • Dictionary of Cantabrian in the Asturian wiktionary (in Asturian) - currently no content.
  • Dictionary of Cantabrian (in Spanish)
  • Alcuentros, Cantabrian magazine of minority languages (in Spanish)
  • Aicion pol cántabru (Action for Cantabrian) (in Cantabrian/Spanish)


 
 

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