Asturian
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The language spoken in Asturias in northern Spain
- noun
:
asturiano
- Many people in Asturias are proud to speak Asturian in their daily lives.
Examples
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She enjoys reading poetry written in Asturian, as it connects her to her heritage.
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But this is doubtless only an analogical re-shaping of the first person based on Castilian eres, a form Rato also gives as occurring in Eastern Asturian.
Academic text (1994) -
The children in the classroom were learning to write in Asturian as part of their cultural curriculum.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Asturian = Asturias (transparent) = Asturias + ian
The language name is formed by adding '-ian' to the place name; naming a language after a region is a regular, learnable pattern.
Etymology
Asturian comes from the region name Asturias and so names the local Romance language spoken there, which is related to Spanish. So Asturian as a language means the speech of the people of Asturias.