Asturian
Romance language of the West Iberian group
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Summary
Asturian is a dialect[1]. Asturian ranks in the top 2% of dialect entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,278 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Spain[3]
- Instance of: modern language[4], natural language[5]
- Subclass of: Asturleonese[6]
- Writing system: Latin script[7]
- Commons category: Asturian language[8]
- Wikimedia language code: ast[9]
- Has part(s): Western Asturian[10], Xíriga[11]
- Topic's main category: Category:Asturian language[12]
- Language regulatory body: Academy of the Asturian Language[13]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 110,000[14], 450,000[15], 100,000[16]
- Topic has template: Q33125631[17]
- Native label: asturianu[18]
- UNESCO language status: 3 definitely endangered[19]
- Indigenous to: Asturias[20], León Province[21], Cantabria[22], Zamora Province[23]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/AST[24], http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133071014[25]
- Ethnologue language status: 6b Threatened[26]
- Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object[27], subject–object–verb[28]
- Has grammatical gender: masculine[29], feminine[30], neuter[31]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Asturian-language films[32]
- Related category: Category:Asturian pronunciation[33]
- Category for music in this language: Q9782234[34]
- P14691: ast[35]
- P14692: Freguesia de Vila Cova de Alva[36]
Why It Matters
Asturian has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] Asturian is known by 48 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]