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Where is Mirandese spoken?

Mirandese (Mirandés) is an Indo-European language, spoken in Portugal and Spain. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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Where Mirandese is spoken

Mirandese is spoken in 2 countries: Portugal and Spain.

Country
Portugal
Spain

Mirandese has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Mirandese?

Wikidata gives about 15,000 speakers (Ethnologue, 2000). These figures are approximate: they come from different sources, years and definitions of a speaker.

Status: Threatened. Glottolog lists it as threatened: it is still spoken by all generations, but there are signs that the number of speakers is falling.

Where Mirandese sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Mirandese as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Indo-European
  2. Classical Indo-European
  3. Italic
  4. Latino-Faliscan
  5. Latinic
  6. Imperial Latin
  7. Romance
  8. Italo-Western Romance
  9. Western Romance
  10. Shifted Western Romance
  11. Southwestern Shifted Romance
  12. West Ibero-Romance
  13. Asturo-Leonese
  14. Mirandese

Related languages

Other languages in the Asturo-Leonese group:

More about Mirandese

Codes: ISO 639-3 mwl, Glottolog mira1251. Glottolog macroarea: Eurasia.

Mirandese is a Romance language, descended from Latin. Latin’s footprint: the Roman Empire at its height → Latin spread along Roman roads →

Questions about Mirandese

Where is Mirandese spoken?

Mirandese is spoken in Portugal and Spain. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

How many people speak Mirandese?

Wikidata gives about 15,000 speakers (Ethnologue, 2000). Speaker numbers are approximate and differ between sources: counting who is a speaker, and whether to include second-language speakers, is not settled.

Which language family is Mirandese in?

Glottolog places Mirandese in the Indo-European family, in the branch Classical Indo-European, Italic, Latino-Faliscan, Latinic, Imperial Latin, Romance, Italo-Western Romance, Western Romance, Shifted Western Romance, Southwestern Shifted Romance, West Ibero-Romance and Asturo-Leonese.

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