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Native Speakers Worldwide

<10,000

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Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages
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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

<10,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Many thousands with some knowledge of the language. Studied as a second language.

Year of info

2005

Location and Context

Countries

Spain, Aragon, Navarra

Coordinates

No data

Location description

Mainly spoken in the high valleys of the Pyrenees such as the Aragon River, Sobrarbe, Ribogorza, northern Huesca, the towns of Graus and Samianigo.

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Other writing systems

Mainly spoken in the high valleys of the Pyrenees such as the Aragon River, Sobrarbe, Ribogorza, northern Huesca, the towns of Graus and Samianigo.

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Other languages used

Spanish

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Mainly spoken in the high valleys of the Pyrenees such as the Aragon River, Sobrarbe, Ribogorza, northern Huesca, the towns of Graus and Samianigo.

Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

10,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Child speakers

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

42.2935,-.4394

Location description

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Government support

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Native Speakers Worldwide

11,000

Domains of Use

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

2,000,000

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Spain;

Coordinates

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Location description

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Government support

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

10,000

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Semi-speakers

30,000

Child speakers

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"According to the last linguistic census, there are close to 10,000 people who currently use Aragonese in a familial environment and for informal communication and 30,000 who could be considered passive speakers of the language; this amounts to approximately 34% of the existing population of Aragón speaking or understanding Aragonese."

Year of info

2014

Location and Context

Countries

Spain

Coordinates

No data

Location description

northern Pyrenean valleys

Government support

no

Institutional support

no

Speakers' attitudes

"Aragonese is also commonly perceived as an incomplete means of expression."

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

Latin

Other writing systems

northern Pyrenean valleys

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Spanish

Domains of other languages

administration, culture, information

More on context

"However, despite lack of institutional support, Aragonese society has relentlessly organized itself into cultural associations and they themselves have for the last thirty five years carried the whole weight of the scientific and economic research, the teaching, promotion, awareness and spread of Aragonese."

Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

11,000

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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  1. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
    http://www.ethnologue.com/
  2. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
  3. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  4. Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages
    Moseley, Christopher. 2005. "Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages." RoutledgeCurzon.
  5. L'Aragonés, an endangered minority language: the case of Ayerbe