A Fala de Xálima

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A Fala de Xálima is a Romance language variety spoken in a few villages of Spain’s Xálima Valley, notable for its close similarity to Galician-Portuguese and its unique local identity.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
A Fala de Xálima canonical 1
Fala de Xálima 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Ibero-Romance language
Romance language variety
minority language
regional language
alternativeName A Fala NERFINISHED
A Fala de Xálima-Val du Xálima NERFINISHED
Fala de Xálima NERFINISHED
Xalimego NERFINISHED
closeTo Galician NERFINISHED
Galician-Portuguese NERFINISHED
Portuguese
country Spain
developedFrom medieval Galician-Portuguese continuum
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasDialect Lagarteiru NERFINISHED
Mañegu NERFINISHED
Valverdeiru NERFINISHED
hasFeature contact with Spanish
oral tradition
similar lexicon to Galician-Portuguese
similar phonology to Galician-Portuguese
strong community attachment
unique local identity
hasMorphology Romance-type inflection
hasStatus unstandardized language variety
hasSyntax SVO basic word order
influencedBy Spanish
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Romance languages
recognizedAs cultural heritage by local authorities
region Sierra de Gata NERFINISHED
sharesOriginWith Galician
Portuguese NERFINISHED
spokenBy several thousand speakers
spokenIn Extremadura NERFINISHED
Spain NERFINISHED
Xálima Valley NERFINISHED
spokenInVillage Eljas NERFINISHED
San Martín de Trevejo NERFINISHED
Valverde del Fresno NERFINISHED
subfamily Ibero-Romance languages
Western Romance languages NERFINISHED
usedBy inhabitants of Eljas
inhabitants of San Martín de Trevejo
inhabitants of Valverde del Fresno
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Fala language hasAlternativeName A Fala de Xálima
Fala language hasAlternativeName A Fala de Xálima
this entity surface form: Fala de Xálima