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9-409: Torrejoncillo ( Spanish: [to.re.xonˈθiʎo] ; Extremaduran : Torrojoncillu ) is a municipality located in the province of Cáceres , Extremadura , Spain. According to the 2006 census ( INE ), the municipality has a population of 3350 inhabitants. 39°54′N 6°28′W  /  39.900°N 6.467°W  / 39.900; -6.467 This article about a location in

18-614: A few villages of southern Salamanca, being known there as the " palra d'El Rebollal ", which is now almost extinct. The late 19th century saw the first serious attempt to write in Extremaduran, until then an oral language, with the poet José María Gabriel y Galán . Born in Salamanca, he lived most of his life in the north of Cáceres , Extremadura. He wrote in a local variant of Extremaduran, full of dialectal remains, but always with an eye on Spanish usage. After that, localisms are

27-588: Is a regional organization in Extremadura, OSCEC Estremaúra, that tries to defend the language, one journal (Belsana) and one cultural newspaper, Iventia, written in the new unified Extremaduran and the old dialect " palra d'El Rebollal ". Palra d%27El Rebollal Some of the Rebollar villages have labelled streets and trekking routes in Spanish and Palra. This article about Romance languages

36-540: The autonomous community of Extremadura, Spain is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Extremaduran language Extremaduran (Extremaduran: estremeñu [ehtːɾeˈmeɲʊ] , Spanish : extremeño ) is a group of vernacular Romance dialects, related to the Asturleonese language , spoken in Extremadura and adjoining areas in the province of Salamanca . It is difficult to establish

45-456: The exact boundary between Extremaduran and the Spanish varieties spoken in most of Extremadura. The linguistic varieties of Extremadura are usually classified in three main branches: Northern or "High" ( artu estremeñu ), Central or "Middle" ( meyu estremeñu ), and Southern or "Low" ( baju estremeñu ). The northern branch is usually considered to be the language proper, and is spoken in

54-404: The north-west of the autonomous region of Extremadura, and the south-west of Salamanca, a province of the autonomous region of Castile and León . The central and southern branches are spoken in the rest of Extremadura, and are not different enough from standard Spanish to be considered anything but dialects of the language, since at least the 18th century. Northern Extremaduran is also spoken in

63-509: The oldest people speaking it at present, while most of the Extremaduran population cannot speak the language, since the majority of Extremadurans, and even its own speakers, regard it as poorly spoken Spanish. In 2013, the people of Serradilla created the first feature film in Extremaduran, Territoriu de bandolerus . [aˈθer] * The words in this table refer only to High Extremaduran. ** Extremaduran words in this table are spelled according to Ismael Carmona García's orthography. There

72-407: The pattern in the attempts to defend the Extremaduran language to the extent that today only a few people are trying to revive the language and make northern Extremadura a bilingual region, whereas the government and official institutions seem to think the best solution is for northwestern Extremadurans to speak a Castilian dialect without any kind of protection. There are also attempts to transform

81-486: The southern Castilian dialects (" castúo ", as some people named them using the word which appeared in Luis Chamizo Trigueros 's poems) into a language, which makes it even harder to defend High Extremaduran, considered more frequently a "real" language and makes it easier for the administration to reject co-officiality and the normalisation of Extremaduran. It is in serious danger of extinction, with only

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