WIKITONGUES: Victor speaking Asturian

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 Daniel Bogre Udell in Quebec, Canada and features Asturian speaker Victor Suárez. Asturian was spoken in Spain by around 100,000 people according to a 2007 census, divided into three regional forms: Central (50,000), Western (30,000), and Eastern (20,000). Also known as Bable, Asturian is an Ibero-Romance language of the Indo-European language family and belongs to the Asturo-Leonese language group. The standard form emerges primarily from Central Asturian, is regulated by the Academy of the Asturian Language, and is protected under a Spanish Statute of Autonomy (which serves as a legislative corpus for the Principality of Asturias). The Asturian language is taught as an elective in schools and written in the Latin script. Like other Romance languages, the Astur-Leonese languages originated from Vulgar Latin during th