13 Facts About Asturian language

The dialects of the Astur-Leonese Asturian language family are traditionally classified in three groups: Western, Central, and Eastern.

For much of its history, the Asturian language has been ignored or "subjected to repeated challenges to its status as a Asturian language variety" due to its lack of official status.

Transition from Latin to Asturian language was slow and gradual; for a long time they co-existed in a diglossic relationship, first in the Kingdom of Asturias and later in that of Asturias and Leon.

However the Asturian language is endangered: there has been a steep decline in the number of speakers over the last century.

However since 1 August 2001 Asturian has been covered under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages' "safeguard and promote" clause.

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An additional 24 percent of the Asturian population said that they understood the language, making a total of about 68 percent of the Asturian population.

The Bible into the Asturian language was completed in 2021 after over 30 years of translation work, beginning in September 1988.

The first Asturian language grammar was published in 1998 and the first dictionary in 2000.

Western Asturian language is spoken between the rivers Navia and Nalon, in the west of the province of Leon and in the provinces of Zamora and Salamanca.

Central Asturian language is spoken between the Sella River and the mouth of the River Nalon in Asturias and north of Leon.

Eastern Asturian language is spoken between the River Sella, Llanes and Cabrales.

The inclusion of Eonavian in the Galician language is controversial, since it has traits in common with western Asturian.

Free software in the Asturian language is available from Debian, Fedora, Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, VLC, GNOME, Chromium and KDE.