Mirandés
| Mirandés | ||
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Spoken in |
Norte Region (Portugal) | |
| speaker | 15,000 | |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
mwl |
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| ISO 639-3 |
mwl |
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Mirandés (also lhéngua mirandesa ) is one of the Romance languages and is spoken in northeastern Portugal near the Spanish border. The language area includes the villages of the Miranda do Douro area (not the city itself) and the localities of the Vimioso , Mogadouro and Bragança areas . Mirandés belongs to the group of Asturleonesian languages, so it is not a dialect of Portuguese , and is spoken by around 15,000 people (as of 2000). The independent development of this language began in the middle of the 12th century.
Dialects
There are the dialects Normal-Mirandés , Grenz-Mirandés and Sendinés-Mirandés .
alphabet
The alphabet of the language knows 23 letters.
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| A. | B. | C. | Ç | D. | E. | F. | G | H | I. | J | L. | M. | N | O | P | Q | R. | S. | T | U | V | Z | |||
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| a | b | c | ç | d | e | f | G | H | i | j | l | m | n | O | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | z | |||
administration
The Portuguese Parliament approved the use of Mirandés in local administrations on September 17, 1998, including in official acts (Law 7/99 of January 29, 1999).
media
Mirandés is not represented in the media, apart from a few articles in the local press.
The district administration of Miranda do Douro moved some books on and Mirandés. In addition, three volumes of the Asterix comic series have been published on Mirandés.
music
The folk music group Galandum Galundaina sings exclusively in this language, both on their phonograms and at their national and international guest performances. Like Galandum Galundaina, the rock band Picä Tumilho comes from Sendim and sings exclusively in Mirandés. Various folk dance groups and other music bands from villages around Miranda do Douro sing songs in whole or in part in Mirandés.
Example text
The following is a sample text in Mirandés, written by Amadeu Ferreira and published in the Portuguese daily Público on July 24, 2007 . For comparison, the translations in Portuguese , Spanish , Asturian and Leonese are placed next to them. A translation into German is also included for better understanding .
| Mirandés | Portuguese | Spanish (Castilian) | Asturian | Leonese | German |
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| Muitas lhénguas ténen proua de ls sous pergaminos antigos, de la lhiteratura screbida hai cientos d'anhos i de scritores hai muito afamados, hoije bandeiras dessas lhénguas. Mas outras hai que now puoden tener proua de nada desso, cumo ye l causo de la lhéngua mirandesa. | Muitas línguas têm orgulho dos seus pergaminhos antigos, da literatura escrita há centenas de anos e de escritores muito famosos, hoje bandeiras dessas línguas. Mas há outras que not podem ter orgulho de nada disso, como é o caso da língua mirandesa. | Muchas lenguas tienen orgullo de sus antiguos pergaminos, de literatura escrita hace cientos de años y de escritores muy famosos, hoy banderas de esas lenguas. Pero hay otras que no pueden tener orgullo de nada de eso, como es el caso de la lengua mirandesa. | Munches llingües tienen arguyu de los sos pergaminos antiguos, de la lliteratura escrita hai cientos d'años y d'escritores enforma famosos, güei banderes d'eses llingües. Pero hai otres que now pueden tener arguyu de nada d'eso, como ye'l casu de la llingua mirandesa. | Muitas llinguas tien arguyu de los sous pergaminos antiguos, de la lliteratura escrita van cientos d'annos y d'escritores bien famosos; guei bandeiras d'eisas llinguas. Peru hai outras que now pueden tener arguyu de nada d'eisu, cumu ye'l casu de la llingua mirandesa. | Many languages are proud of their old parchments, of the literature written centuries ago and of their famous writers, who are now the flagship of these languages. But there are other languages that cannot be proud of any of these things, such as: B. the Mirandés. |
literature
- Aurelia Merlan: Language contact and language change in the Portuguese-Spanish border area: The Mirandesian (= Rostock Romanistic Works, Volume 15). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-631-62261-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mirandés at www.omniglot.com.
- ↑ Nova aventura de Asterix traduzida para mirandês. In: tvi24.pt. October 22, 2015. Retrieved August 28, 2017 (Portuguese).