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Leonese (llionés, ḷḷionés, lionés) 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), the village of Riudenore (in both Spain and Portugal) and Guadramil in Portugal, sometimes considered another language.
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Leonese, Asturian, Extremaduran and Mirandese pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA , and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters .
Kingdom of Asturias about 910 AD, after the reign of King Alfonso III of Asturias (848–910). Asturian is the historical language of Asturias, portions of the Spanish provinces of León and Zamora and the area surrounding Miranda do Douro in northeastern Portugal. [11]
Asturleonese [1] is a Romance language or language family spoken in northwestern Spain and northeastern Portugal, namely in the historical regions and Spain's modern-day autonomous communities of Asturias, northwestern Castile and León, Cantabria and Extremadura, and in Riudenore and Tierra de Miranda in Portugal.
Unlike many other letters that use diacritics (such as ü in Catalan and Spanish and ç in Catalan and sometimes in Spanish), ñ in Spanish, Galician, Basque, Asturian, Leonese, Guarani and Filipino is considered a letter in its own right, has its own name (Spanish: eñe), and its own place in the alphabet (after n ).
Some of the Astur-Leonese languages in northern Spain have the same distinction between final /o/ and /u/ [97] as in the Central-Southern Italian languages, [98] with /u/ triggering metaphony. [99] The plural of masculine nouns in these dialects ends in -os , which does not trigger metaphony, unlike in the singular (vs. Italian plural -i ...
The Tartessian or Southwestern script is typologically intermediate between a pure alphabet and the Paleohispanic full semi-syllabaries. Although the letter used to write a stop consonant was determined by the following vowel, as in a full semi-syllabary, the following vowel was also written, as in an alphabet. Some scholars treat Tartessian as ...
Old Leonese or Medieval Leonese is a West Iberian dialect of Vulgar Latin spoken in several regions of the Kingdom of León and the medieval Principality of Asturias. It was the ancestor of several languages, all forming the Asturleonese language family .