Asturian language

Asturian
Astur-Leonese
asturianu
Native to	Spain
Region	Autonomous Community of Asturias
Native speakers	110,000 (2007)[1] 450,000 L2 speakers (1994)
Language family	Indo-European Italic Romance Western Gallo-Iberian Ibero-Romance West Iberian Astur-Leonese Asturian
Dialects	Leonese
Writing system	Latin
Official status
Regulated by	Academy of the Asturian Language (Asturian)
Language codes
ISO 639-2	ast
ISO 639-3	ast
ELP	Asturian
Linguasphere	51-AAA-ca
Linguistic area of asturian language

The Asturian language is the native language of Asturias. Between 200,000 and 600,000 people speak it in Asturias.^[2][3] This language is very similar to Leonese Language, spoken in other territories that once made up the Kingdom of León (León, Western Zamora, Salamanca and Northwestern Cáceres where is called extremaduran), and to Mirandes Language, spoken in Miranda do Douro in Portugal. In Asturias, primary and secondary students can choose to study it.

References

1. Asturian at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
2. "«Si los asturianos no creen en el bable no tendrá futuro aunque los políticos y las leyes digan otra cosa»". September 15, 2014.
3. Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (October 16, 2017). "III Encuesta Sociolingüística de Asturias" (PDF).