WIKITONGUES: José Benito speaking Leonese

This video is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. To download a copy, please contact hello@. This video was recorded by Ana Laguna in Salamanca, Spain, where she and José Benito met at a conference for the Leonese language. Leonese is spoken by as many as 50,000 people, primarily in the Castile y León region of western Spain. A variety of the Astur-Leonese dialect continuum, Leonese bears close resemblance to other languages in the region, including Asturian, Extremaduran, Mirandese, and Cantabrian; collectively, all have been varyingly described as separate but similar languages, or distinct dialects of a single mother tongue. Grammatically and in vocabulary, the Astur-Leonese languages share traits with Portuguese, Galician, and Spanish Like most other Romance languages, Leonese first emerged in the tenth century CE from local dialects of Vulgar Latin, and was a language of government and literature, until it was displaced by Sp