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fala language
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The FalaLanguage is a PortugueseGalicianLanguage of Spain. SIL code: FAX. ISO 639-2: roa. Population: 10,500 including 5,500 active speakers in the language area, 5,000 outside, many of whom return each summer (1994 T. Erickson). Region: Northwest corner of the autonomous region of Extremadura, an isolated valley on the Portuguese border called Val de Xalima or Val du riu Ellas, towns of Valverdi du Fresnu, As Ellas and Sa Martin de Trebellu. Alternate names: A FALA DE XALIMA, A FALA DO XALIMA, GALAICO-EXTREMADURAN, 'CHAPURREAU'. Dialects: VALVIDEIRU, MANEGU, LAGARTEIRU. Comments: Dialects: are inherently intelligible to each others' speakers. Not easily intelligible with the surrounding language varieties. Intelligible to speakers of Galician. They speak Spanish in school, church, and with outsiders. Spoken in all contexts except school, church, and contacts with outsiders. All ages. Vitality is high. The speakers do not identify with the Galicians. Literacy rate in second language: Nearly 100%. Speakers do not want orthography to be like Galician.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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| Instances | content bearing physical | Any Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition. |
| | entity | The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology. |
| | gallo iberian language | Of the 32 WesternRomanceLanguages, 30 of these are classified as a GalloIberianLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | human language | The subclass of Languages used by Humans. |
| | ibero romance language | Of the 30 GalloIberianLanguages, 17 of these are classified as an IberoRomanceLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | indo european language | There are 433 languages categorized as an IndoEuropeanLanguage, forming a major family of the world's languages and including many of the most familiar languages of Europe and South Asia.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | italic language | An ItalicLanguage is any of 48 closely related IndoEuropeanLanguages spoken in Europe.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | italo western romance language | Of the 47 RomanceLanguages, 38 of these are classified as an ItaloWesternRomanceLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | language | A system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people. |
| | language family | A LanguageFamily is group of SpokenHumanLanguages related through descent from a common ancestral language. (reference from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family) |
| | linguistic expression | This is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words. |
| | natural language | The subclass of HumanLanguages which are not designed and which evolve from generation to generation. This Class includes all of the national languages, e.g. English, Spanish, Japanese, etc. Note that this class includes dialects of natural languages. |
| | physical | An entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time. |
| | portuguese galician language | Of the 10 WestIberianLanguages, three of these are classified as a PortugueseGalicianLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | romance language | Of the 48 ItalicLanguages, 47 of these are classified as a RomanceLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | west iberian language | Of the 17 IberoRomanceLanguages, 10 of these is classified as a WestIberianLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | western romance language | Of the 38 ItaloWesternRomanceLanguages, 32 of these are classified as a WesternRomanceLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
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