Asturian is a West Iberian Romance language spoken in the Principality of Asturias, Spain. Asturian is part of a wider linguistic group, the Asturleonese languages. The number of speakers is estimated
19th-century sketch of 17th-century author Antón de Marirreguera
Jurist and neoclassical author Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (1744–1811), who envisaged the Academy of the Asturian Language
1918 example of the usage of Asturian in advertising, "Take a good look at me... I'm smoking with La Panoya rolling paper"
1926 example of the usage of Asturian language and toponym in advertising, "Motorists and Truckers! Make your purchases at Tuero, the cheapest and most assorted in Oviedo"
Gijón or Xixón is a city and municipality in northwestern Spain. It is the largest city and municipality by population in the autonomous community of Asturias.
Asturian language
…Eastern dialect of Asturian. The first newspaper written completely in Asturian language, Ixuxú, was created by poet Francisco González Prieto in 1901 in Gijón. It was a conservative ultracatholic weekly newspaper. He also created another newspaper in Asturian, L'Astur in 1904. Beginning in the 1930's and…
View of the archaeological site of Campa Torres [es]