Escuela de Idiomas Nerja
12/04/2009
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Murciano
It is spoken in Murcia, some parts of Alicante, south east of Albacete, north east of Jaen and Granada and the north of Almeria. It contains features of Aragones, Catalan and southern Castilian.
Canario
It shares features with Andalusian and with other Spanish-American dialects.
Features: Galician has seven vowels but Portuguese has some more. Galician brought together the pronunciation of the Latin b and v. It also has ch and the z phoneme.
Spanish Languages
Gallego
The Galician Language: It is the result of the Vulgar Latin evolution within the north east of the peninsula.
The Galician and he Portuguese Languages: Both languages come from the gallego-portugués Language. This Language was accepted by numerous Castilian poets. Since the XV century onwards, both languages start to differentiate. Galician Language becomes the language of a limited region and it is not till the XIX century which it wins its condition of spoken Language, thanks to the renaissance of the literature.
Catalán
Catalonian Language: It is the result of the evolution of Latin in the territory of the old Catalonian Principality. It is not the dialect of any other language.
The Valenciano and Balear are the result of the expansion made by the northern languages; they have lots of words of Arabic and Mozarabic origin.
Dialects: Occidental Catalonian: Andorra, the frontier zone of Aragón, Lleida, East of Tarragona and Comunidad Valenciana.
Oriental Catalonian: Oriental Pyrenees, Gerona, Barcelona, North east of Tarragona, Baleares islands, Alguer.
Features: Opening of stressed vowels more tan normally, pronunciation of the ending –d as an ending -t.
Vasco
Basque Language: It is spoken in the central and oriental part of Vizcaya, Álava, north of Navarra, and the whole region of Guipúzcoa, it is not an Indo-European language, and it shares kinship with Caucasian languages.
Dialects: Vizcaíno, Guipuzcoano, Northern and Southern High Navarro, Labotano, Luletino, oriental and occidental Low
Navarro.
Features: It has five vowels, lost of the initial Latin f-, b and v sounds the same, presence of the vowel a preceding personal direct complement.