Old Spanish
E81604
Old Spanish is the historical form of the Spanish language spoken in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages, from which modern Spanish and Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) evolved.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old Spanish canonical | 18 |
| Medieval Castilian | 4 |
| Old Castilian | 3 |
| Classical Spanish | 1 |
| Old Catalan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T651215 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Old Spanish Context triple: [Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), derivedFrom, Old Spanish]
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A.
Andalusian Spanish
Andalusian Spanish is a prominent regional variety of the Spanish language spoken mainly in Andalusia in southern Spain, known for distinctive phonetic features such as consonant weakening and seseo/ceceo.
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B.
Murcian Spanish
Murcian Spanish is a regional variety of the Spanish language spoken mainly in the Region of Murcia in southeastern Spain, characterized by phonetic and lexical features similar to those of neighboring Andalusian dialects.
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C.
Pastuso Spanish
Pastuso Spanish is a regional variety of Colombian Spanish spoken primarily in and around the city of Pasto in southwestern Colombia, characterized by distinctive pronunciation and vocabulary influenced by Andean and neighboring Ecuadorian dialects.
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D.
Llanito
Llanito is a unique vernacular spoken in Gibraltar that blends Andalusian Spanish, British English, and elements from other Mediterranean languages.
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E.
Spanish Golden Age
The Spanish Golden Age was a flourishing period of cultural, artistic, and literary achievement in Spain, spanning roughly the 16th and 17th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Old Spanish Target entity description: Old Spanish is the historical form of the Spanish language spoken in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages, from which modern Spanish and Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) evolved.
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A.
Andalusian Spanish
Andalusian Spanish is a prominent regional variety of the Spanish language spoken mainly in Andalusia in southern Spain, known for distinctive phonetic features such as consonant weakening and seseo/ceceo.
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B.
Murcian Spanish
Murcian Spanish is a regional variety of the Spanish language spoken mainly in the Region of Murcia in southeastern Spain, characterized by phonetic and lexical features similar to those of neighboring Andalusian dialects.
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C.
Pastuso Spanish
Pastuso Spanish is a regional variety of Colombian Spanish spoken primarily in and around the city of Pasto in southwestern Colombia, characterized by distinctive pronunciation and vocabulary influenced by Andean and neighboring Ecuadorian dialects.
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D.
Llanito
Llanito is a unique vernacular spoken in Gibraltar that blends Andalusian Spanish, British English, and elements from other Mediterranean languages.
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E.
Spanish Golden Age
The Spanish Golden Age was a flourishing period of cultural, artistic, and literary achievement in Spain, spanning roughly the 16th and 17th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ibero-Romance language
ⓘ
Romance language ⓘ historical language ⓘ |
| country |
Castile
ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of Castile
|
| developsFrom |
Mozarabic language
ⓘ
surface form:
Mozarabic
Vulgar Latin ⓘ |
| developsInto |
Asturian language
ⓘ
surface form:
Asturleonese Spanish varieties
Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) ⓘ
surface form:
Judeo-Spanish
Ladino ⓘ Modern Spanish ⓘ |
| endTime | 15th century ⓘ |
| era | medieval period ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Early Modern Spanish
ⓘ
Modern Spanish ⓘ |
| follows | Vulgar Latin ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
case distinctions largely lost compared to Latin
ⓘ
distinct phonemes /ʎ/ and /ʝ/ ⓘ retention of initial f- before vowels in many words ⓘ two-gender system (masculine and feminine) ⓘ use of clitic pronoun system ancestral to Modern Spanish ⓘ use of future and conditional forms derived from Latin infinitive + habere ⓘ use of letters x, j, g to represent different sibilant sounds ⓘ use of non-standardized orthography ⓘ use of synthetic preterite forms ⓘ use of voiced sibilants distinct from voiceless sibilants ⓘ use of yeísmo not yet generalized ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Castilian dialect of the Middle Ages
ⓘ
Navarro-Aragonese varieties ⓘ |
| influenced |
Judeo-Spanish lexicon
ⓘ
Modern Spanish phonology ⓘ Spanish orthographic traditions ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Arabic
ⓘ
surface form:
Arabic language
Basque ⓘ
surface form:
Basque language
Mozarabic dialects ⓘ Occitan ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | osp ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Ibero-Romance languages
ⓘ
Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
Italic languages ⓘ Romance languages ⓘ Western Romance languages ⓘ |
| notableWorkInLanguage |
Cantar de mio Cid
ⓘ
Fuero Juzgo ⓘ Glosas Emilianenses ⓘ Glosas Silenses ⓘ Siete Partidas ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
loss of initial Latin f- in many words
ⓘ
palatalization of Latin consonant clusters ⓘ phonological merger of /b/ and /v/ ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Crown of Aragon
ⓘ
Iberian Peninsula ⓘ Kingdom of León ⓘ Kingdom of Navarre ⓘ |
| startTime | 10th century ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Spanish
ⓘ
surface form:
Spanish language
|
| usedFor |
legal documents in medieval Castile
ⓘ
literary works in medieval Iberia ⓘ |
| usedIn | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin script ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: Old Spanish Description of subject: Old Spanish is the historical form of the Spanish language spoken in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages, from which modern Spanish and Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) evolved.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.