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From: deb5@harper.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Bable/Asturian [was:Re: English importation of words
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In article <315BABAF.5256@asturnet.es>, Rudy Vonk  <roophy@asturnet.es> wrote:

>The Celts here in North-West Spain caved in to Romance domination 
>sooner than any other Celts I know of. Galician is the oldest 
>(Romance) language of all those developed on the Iberian peninsula 
>from the vulgar Latin, and is close to Portuguese. In Asturias, some 
>fanatics keep "fighting" for their language (sometimes referred to 
>as "Bable") to be recognized as an official language, but I tend to 
>share the majority opinion that it is merely a dialect of 
>Castillian, with strong Galician influences. You do find, however, a 
>fair sprinkling  of Celtic traces in place-names, rivers, etc.

Galician influences?  Like what?

From what I've seen (I've yet to set my eyes on the grammar of standardised
Asturiano which our library supposedly owns), Bable looks more like Arago-
nese than Galician.  Both of these are languages of former Spanish kingdoms
that, after a long period of attrition, have lapsed to the status of dia-
lects of Castillian.

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