Mirandese leid
Mirandese | |
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Mirandés | |
Native tae | Portugal |
Region | Northeast (Miranda do Douro, Sendim, Vimioso an Mogadouro) |
Native speakers | 15,000 (2000)[1] (10,000 uise it regularly, 5,000 when they return tae the aurie. 2,000 Sendinese in Sendim Vila.)[2] |
Offeecial status | |
Offeecial leid in | Co-offeecial recogneetion. Special protection status in Miranda do Douro, Portugal. Statutory leid o provincial identity in 4 municipalities, northeast Portugal (1999, Law No. 7-99 o 29 Januar).[3] |
Regulatit bi | Anstituto de la Lhéngua Mirandesa |
Leid codes | |
ISO 639-2 | mwl |
ISO 639-3 | mwl |
Glottolog | mira1251 [4] |
Linguasphere | 51-AAA-cb |
![]() Locator map o the Miranda do Douro municipality, which herbours the vast majority o Mirandese speakers. | |

Street sign, at Genísio veelage, wi the street name in Mirandese an in Portuguese
The Mirandese leid (autonym: mirandés or lhéngua mirandesa; Portuguese: mirandês or língua mirandesa) is an Asturlionese leid that is spairsely spoken in a smaw aurie o northeastren Portugal in the municipalities o Miranda do Douro, Mogadouro an Vimioso. The Assembly o the Republic grantit it offeecial recogneetion alangside Portuguese for local matters on 17 September 1998 wi the law 7/99 o 29 Januar 1999.
Mirandese haes a distinct phonologie, morphologie an syntax. It haes its ruits in the local Vulgar Laitin speuken in the northern Iberie Peninsula.
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ Mirandese at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ "Mirandese". Ethnologue.com. 19 Februar 1999. Retrieved 10 Apryle 2015.
- ↑ "Mirandese". Ethnologue. 19 Februar 1999. Retrieved 10 Apryle 2015.
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mirandese". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.