Old Leonese language
Old Leonese | |
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Region | Kingdom of León |
Ethnicity | Asturians Leonese |
Era | Evolved into Asturian, Leonese, Mirandese, and possibly Cantabrian and Extremaduran by the late 13th century and early 14th century. |
Early forms | Old Latin
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Old Leonese is a West Iberian language spoken in the Kingdom of León.
Phonology[edit]
- The sound change [ʎ] to [ʝ], called yeísmo, may appear in Old East and Central Leonese.[1] This phenomenon may have spread to Castilian from Asturian and Leonese settlers.[2]
Sample text[edit]
The following text is from the nodicia de kesos, an early list of cheeses.
- 1st column
Nodicia de /kesos que /espisit frater /Semeno: jn labore /de fratres jn ilo ba- /celare /de cirka Sancte Ius- /te, kesos U; jn ilo /alio de apate, /II kesos; en [que] /puseron ogano, /kesos IIII; jn ilo /de Kastrelo, I; /jn ila vinia majore, /II
- List of /cheeses that spent brother /Semeno: in the work/ of the brothers in the vi /neyard /near Saint Just,/ 5 cheeses; in the /other of the abbot, /2 cheeses; in [the one that]/ they put this year, / 4 cheeses; in the one /of Castrillo, 1; /in the main vineyard, 2
- 2nd column
/que lebaron en fosado, /II, ad ila tore; /que baron a Cegia, /II, quando la talia- /ron ila mesa; II que /lebaron Lejione; II /..s...en /u...re... /...que... /...c... /...e...u /...alio (?) /... /g... Uane Ece; alio ke le /ba de sopbrino de Gomi /de do...a...; IIII que espi- /seron quando llo rege /uenit ad Rocola; /I qua salbatore ibi /uenit'
- /that they took as war tribute, /2, to the tower; that they took to Cea, /2, when they car- /ved the table; 2 that /they took to León; 2/..s...en /u...re... /...que... /...c... /...e...u /...other (?) /... /g... Uane Ece /another that to- /ok Gomi's nephew /de do...a...; 4 that they spe- /nt when the king /came to Rozuela; /1 when Salvador /came there.
References[edit]
- ^ Zampaulo, André (2019-09-19). Palatal Sound Change in the Romance Languages: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-253429-3.
- ^ Penny, Ralph (1991). "El origen asturleonés de algunos fenómenos andaluces y americanos" (PDF). Lletres asturianes: Boletín Oficial de l'Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (in Spanish). 39: 33–40. ISSN 0212-0534. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 June 2013. Retrieved 20 November 2022.