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Name: Asturian Type: Language Alternate Names: Asturan; Leonese; Astur-Leonese; Asturian-Leonese; Asturianu Spoken in: Spain, Portugal Number of speakers: 100,000 in Spain (1994). 50,000 in Central Asturian, 30,000 in Western Asturian, 20,000 in Eastern Asturian. Population total all countries: 125,000. Ethnic population: 550,000 (1996) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 150000 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 125039 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: ast Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite) Parent Subgroup: Asturo-Leonese; Astur-Leonese; Asturian-Leonese (asle) Child Dialects: Central Asturian; Bable (ast-cen) West Asturian (ast-wes) Western Asturian (ast-wea) Eastern Asturian (ast-eas) Leonese; Lleones (ast-leo)

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed