Asturian language
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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"
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Asturias, officially the Principality of Asturias, is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain. It is coextensive with the province of Asturias and contains some of the territory that was part of
Asturian language
…Asturian (; asturianu ) 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 at 100,000 (native) and 450,000…
Roman thermae in Gijón
Processional Cross, ca. 1150–75, it comes from a 12th-century church fifty miles east of Oviedo. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Santa María del Naranco, ancient palace of Asturian kings, 842 AD. Many churches in Asturias are among the oldest churches of Europe, dating to the Early Middle Ages.