A Fala de Jálama

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A Fala de Jálama is a minority Romance language variety spoken in a few villages of the Jálama Valley in western Spain, closely related to Galician-Portuguese.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Fala de Jálama 2
A Fala 1
A Fala de Jálama canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (41)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Ibero-Romance language
Romance language variety
minority language
alsoKnownAs A Fala
linked to: Fala

Fala de Jálama
linked to: A Fala de Jálama

Fala de Xálima
linked to: A Fala de Xálima
closelyRelatedTo Galician
linked to: Galician language

Portuguese
country Spain
developedFrom Vulgar Latin
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName A Fala de Xálima
Xalimego
linked to: Xalimegu
hasDialect lagarteiru
mañegu
valverdeiru
hasFeature Galician-Portuguese phonology
conservative Romance features
distinct local lexicon
use of nasal vowels similar to Portuguese
hasGlottocode fala1238
hasISOCode none
hasStatus not officially recognized at national level
recognized as cultural heritage locally
languageFamily Ibero-Romance languages
Indo-European languages
Romance languages
Western Romance languages
locatedIn western Spain
linked to: northwest Spain
numberOfSpeakers a few thousand
region Jálama Valley
spokenBy bilingual speakers of Spanish
spokenIn Eljas
Extremadura
San Martín de Trevejo
Valverde del Fresno
subclassOf Galician-Portuguese language group
subjectOf linguistic research on Galician-Portuguese continuum
usedAlongside Spanish
usedIn everyday oral communication
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Fala language nativeName A Fala
linked to: A Fala de Jálama
Fala language hasAlternativeName A Fala de Jálama
Fala language hasAlternativeName Fala de Jálama
linked to: A Fala de Jálama
A Fala de Jálama alsoKnownAs Fala de Jálama
linked to: A Fala de Jálama