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extramaduran language
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The EstramaduranLanguage is a CastilianLanguage of Spain. SIL code: EXT. ISO 639-2: roa. Population: 200,000 active speakers, plus 500,000 able to use it, including some monolinguals (1994 T. Erickson). Most speakers are in the northern dialect. 1,100,000 in the ethnic group. Region: Autonomous region of Extremadura (except the Fala-speaking valley in the northwest, Portuguese dialect-speaking strips in the west, and Spanish-speaking strip in the east), and a few neighboring areas. Alternate names: EXTREMENO, EHTREMENU, CAHTUO, CAHTUO. Dialects: NORTHERN EXTREMADURAN (ARTU EHTREMENU), CENTRAL EXTREMADURAN (MEYU EHTREMENU), SOUTHERN EXTREMADURAN (BAHU EHTREMENU). Comments: Related to the eastern dialect of Tur-Leonese. Dialects: are inherently intelligible to each others' speakers. Those who have gone to school speak Spanish in formal situations and to outsiders. Most speakers are over 30 years old (1994). They use Extremaduran in all contexts. SVO. Literacy rate in second language: 90%. 2 orthographies, one Castilian-like, developed around the turn of the century by the famous poet Jose Maria Gabriel y Galan, the other more recent and more phonetic.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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| Instances | castilian language | Of the 10 WestIberianLanguages, five of these are classified as a CastilianLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | 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. |
| | 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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