Mirandese language Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
The Mirandese language (Lhéngua Mirandesa in Mirandese; Língua Mirandesa or Mirandês in Portuguese) is spoken in northeastern Portugal. The Portuguese Parliament granted it official recognition on 17 Setember, 1998 as the law 7/99 of 29 January, 1999.Mirandese has a distinct grammatical corpus (independent phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax) and dates from the formation of Portugal (12th century). It has its roots in the spoken Latin of the north of the Iberian Peninsula (Portuguese developed in the northwest). It offers a well-preserved dialect of the ancient Leonese language of northern Iberia, which today is related to the Asturian language, which in its turn is considered by many a dialect of Spanish.
However, these amalgamations in the Spanish territory did not affect Mirandese, which preserves distinct languistic differences in relation to both Portuguese and Spanish. Mirandese forms the last remnant of the ancient language of the Kingdom of León.
In the 19th century, José Leite de Vasconcelos, described it as "the language of the farms, of work, home, and love between the Mirandese".
Today Mirandese retains fewer than 5,000 speakers in the villages of the Municipality of Miranda do Douro and in some eastern villages (i.e. Vilar Seco & Angueira; case of Cacarelhos, considered recently extinct) of the Municipality of Vimioso, and some linguisitic influence can be observed at other villages of the municipality of Vimioso and the municipalities of Mogadouro, Macedo de Cavaleiros and Bragança. Three variants of the Mirandese language exist: "Border Mirandese", "Central Mirandese" and "Sendinês Mirandese". Most speakers are bilingual in Portuguese or even trilingual in Portuguese and Spanish.
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