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Fala is a Romance language commonly classified in the Portuguese-Galician subgroup, with some traits from Leonese, spoken
in Spain by about 10,500 people, of whom 5,500 live in a valley of the northwestern part of Extremadura near the border with
Portugal. The speakers of Fala live in the towns of Valverde del Fresno (Valverdi du Fresnu), Eljas (As Ellas) and San Martín
de Trevejo (Sa Martín de Trebellu). Other names sometimes used for the language are Fala de Jálama or Fala de Xálima, but
neither of them is used by the speakers themselves, who call their linguistic varieties lagarteiru (in Eljas), manhegu / mañegu
(in San Martín de Trevejo) and valverdeiru (in Valverde del Fresno). Even though it has no official status, and has little
presence in schools and church, use of the language is vigorous, and the literacy rate in Fala is nearly 100%. As a linguistic
community, speakers have a strong, independent identity; even though Fala is mutually intelligible with the Galician language,
they have rejected implementing a standard orthography similar to or based on the Galician one. A translation of the New Testament
has been completely drafted in Fala (2011), but is not yet finalized. |
Names (more)[ca] Fala de Xàlima[co] A Fala [de] A Fala [en] Fala language [eu] Extremadurako fala [fa] زبان فالا [fr] Fala [fy] Falaansk [gl] Fala de Estremadura [gv] Fala [hr] Fala jezik [it] Lingua fala [ko] 팔라어 [la] Lingua Xalamensis [nl] Fala [no] Fala [pt] Fala da Estremadura [ru] Фала де Шалима [es] Fala [uk] Фальська мова |
Language type : Living
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