AragoneseLanguage
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Sigma KEE - AragoneseLanguage
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aragonese language
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The AragoneseLanguage is a PyreneanLanguage of Spain. SIL code: AXX. ISO 639-2: roa. Population: 11,000 or more active speakers. An additional 20,000 people use it as second language (1993 Counsel of the Aragonese Language). The majority speak Eastern Aragonese. 2,000,000 in the ethnic group. Region: Zaragoza, Uesca Province. The northern limit is the Pyrenean border, separating Aragon from Occitania, the western limit is the border of Navarra, the eastern limit is north of Montso. Western Aragonese includes the towns of Anso, Echo, Chasa, Berdun, and Chaca, Central Aragonese the towns of Panticosa, Biescas, Torla, Broto, Bielsa, Yebra, and L'Ainsa, Eastern Aragonese the towns of Benas (Benasque, Benasc, Patues), Plan, Bisagorri, Campo, Perarruga, Graus, Estadilla, Southern Aragonese the towns of Aguero, Ayerbe, Rasal, Bolea, Lierta, Uesca, Almudebar, Nozito, Labata, Alguezra, Angues, Pertusa, Balbastro, Nabal. Alternate names: ARAGOIERAZ, ALTOARAGONES, ARAGONES, FABLA ARAGONESA, PATUES, HIGH ARAGONESE. Dialects: WESTERN ARAGONESE (ANSOTANO, CHESO), CENTRAL ARAGONESE (BELSETAN, CHISTABINO, TENSINO, PANDICUTO, BERGOTES), EASTERN ARAGONESE (BENASQUES, GRAUSINO, RIBAGORZANO, FOBANO, CHISTABINO), SOUTHERN ARAGONESE (AYERBENSE, SEMONTANES). Comments: There are local varieties. Different from the local variety of Spanish (also called 'Aragonese', which is influenced by High Aragonese). Eastern Aragonese is transitional to Catalan. Similarities to Catalan, Occitan, and Gascon. Speakers use Spanish (Castilian) in varying degrees, depending on their education, generally they use it well. Used with outsiders. Speakers include 500 elderly monolinguals (1993). There is an Aragonese Speakers' League (Ligallo de Fablans de l'Aragones) in Zaragoza, and a Council of the Aragonese Language (Consello d'a Fabla Aragonesa) in Uesca. There are 5 magazines in Aragonese, and at least 6 organizations of mother tongue speakers working in the language. The written language is based on Central and Eastern Aragonese. Official language. Grammar. Literacy rate in second language: Nearly 100%. Christian.(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. |
| human language | The subclass of Languages used by Humans. |
| 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. |
| pyrenean language | Of the two PyreneanMozarabicLanguages, one of these is classified as a PyreneanLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| pyrenean mozarabic language | Of the 32 WesternRomanceLanguages, two of these are classified as a PyreneanMozarabicLanguage.(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/) |
| 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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