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Mirandese

Romance language belonging to the Astur-Leonese linguistic group, sparsely spoken in a small area of northeastern Portugal
Intangible natural_language Q13330
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Summary

Mirandese is a natural language[1]. Mirandese draws 2,960 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #110 of 734).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Portugal[3]
  • Instance of: modern language[4]
  • Subclass of: Asturleonese[5]
  • Writing system: Latin script[6], Mirandes alphabet[7]
  • Commons category: Mirandese language[8]
  • Wikimedia language code: mwl[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Mirandese language[10]
  • Language regulatory body: Anstituto de la Lhéngua Mirandesa[11]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 15,000[12]
  • Native label: Mirandés[13], lhéngua mirandesa[14], léngua mirandesa[15]
  • Indigenous to: Bragança[16], Miranda do Douro[17], Vimioso[18], Mogadouro[19]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/MWL[20], http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133080838[21]
  • Ethnologue language status: 2 Provincial[22]
  • Has grammatical gender: masculine[23], feminine[24]
  • Category for films in this language: Category:Mirandese-language films[25]

Why It Matters

Mirandese has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] Mirandese is known by 36 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

Related Entities

Moldova Portugal

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Indigenous to → Bragança, Miranda do Douro, Vimioso +1
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 41.4958535, 'lon': -6.2738577}
    Number of speakers, writers, or signers → {'amount': '+15000'}
    Topic's main category → Category:Mirandese language
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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