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| Fala | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Spain |
| Region | NW Extremadura |
Native speakers | (11,000 cited 1994)[1] |
Early forms | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | fax |
| Glottolog | fala1241 |
Fala ("speech", also called Xalimego[2]) is a Western Romance language commonly classified in the Galician-Portuguese subgroup, with some traits from Leonese, spoken in Spain by about 10,500 people, of whom 5,500 live in a valley of the northwestern part of Extremadura near the border with Portugal. The speakers of Fala live in the towns of Valverde del Fresno (Valverdi du Fresnu), Eljas (As Ellas) and San Martín de Trevejo (Sa Martín de Trevellu). These are within the valley of Jálama, in the comarca of Sierra de Gata.
Other names sometimes used for the language are Fala de Jálama or Fala de Xálima, but neither of them is used by the speakers themselves, who call their linguistic varieties lagarteiru (in Eljas), manhegu / mañegu (in San Martín de Trevejo) and valverdeiru (in Valverde del Fresno).[3]
- ^ Fala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "Promotora Española de Lingüística". www.proel.org. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ newspaper La Vanguardia (8-6-2019): La fala, una lengua viva del norte de Extremadura (in Spanish)