Extremaduran

The Extremaduran ( estremeñu ) is a Romance Langue spoken by a few thousands about people in Spain, mainly in the autonomy of Estrémadure and the Province of Salamanque.

There exist three types of dialects extremadurans. The extremaduran spoken in north is regarded as official; he is spoken in the North-West about the autonomous community about Estrémadure and south-west about Salamanque (a province of the autonomous community of Castille-and-León). The central and southernmost dialect is spoken in Estrémadure, like in the provinces of Huelva and Seville, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. They are dialects derived from the Castilian appeared at the 18th century. In the Portuguese city of Barrancos however, the old language of Extremaduran is mixed with the Portuguese in what is called the " barranquenhu" , the dialect of Barrancainian. The Scandinavian extremaduran also gave rise to a derived dialect with Salamanque, the " of El Rebollal of palra" , which almost disappeared today.

History

Estrémadure Western was reconquered by the Royaume of León, the old man léonais When the Christian inhabitants made around the 12th century, the extremaduran was still spoken in this area.

After the creation of the principality Castille-and-León, resulting from the fusion of the kingdoms of León and Castille, the Castilian slowly substituted Latin as an official language of the institutions, thus relaying the old man léonais with a sign of poverty and ignorance for those which still spoke it. Only the province of Asturies still spoke a language different from the Castilian; but only some authors used it in their writings, with the result that the language was lost little by little.

The cultural upheaval of the Castilian university of Salamanque was probably the cause of the fast castilianisation of this province, thus dividing the field of the Asturien - léonais between the Asturien in north, and the extremaduran in the south of the old kingdom léonais. The expansion of Spanish also came by the south with the economic revival from the Province from Badajoz.

The end of the 19th century saw the first serious attempt to write in extremaduran, before it becomes an oral language, with the famous poet Jose María Gabriel there Galán. Born in Salamanque, he lived the major part of his life in the north of Cáceres, in Estrémadure.

Today only certain organizations make their possible to restore the language and to make of Scandinavian Estrémadure a bilingual area, while the government and the institutions think that the best solution is than the inhabitants of Estrémadure of the North-West keep a Castilian dialect without the extremaduran. There also were attempts at transformation of the southernmost dialects Castilian into official language, which still destabilizes the extremaduran and facilitates the task of the administration (to reject the projects of officialization and standardization of the extremaduran). Today this dialect is seriously threatened of disappearance, since only the elderly still speak a dialect deformed about the original. The major part of the population of Estrémadure is unaware of the existence even dialect, since all the written and audio-visual media are in Spanish.

Organizations and media

There exists an regional organization, the APLEx , which tries to preserve the extremaduran. In same optics, a cultural newspaper was created, Iventia, was written into new extremaduran unified.

External bonds

Ethnologist Report/ratio for the estremaduran
http://www.proel.org/lenguas.html
http://www.iventia.com/lengua.htm

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