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Ansó Aragonese

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Native to
  
Aragon, Spain

Writing system
  
Latin script

Region
  
Ansó Valley

Glottolog
  
None

Ansó Aragonese

Language family
  
Indo-European Italic Romance Western Pyrenean–Mozarabic Aragonese Ansó Aragonese

Ansó Aragonese is a variety of Western Aragonese spoken in Ansó Valley, included Ansó, Biniés and Fago.

Contents

Map of 22728 Ans%C3%B3, Huesca, Spain

Phonetics

Final -r is not pronounced in Ansó but it's still pronounced in Fago.

Morphology

The most documented article system in Ansó Aragonese is o, a, os, as but it is also used the old system lo, la, los, las in certain contexts:

  • fendo lo fatuo
  • le'n diremos a la ermana
  • The verb haver (to have) as impersonal in general Aragonese (b)i ha, (b)i heva is replaced by the verb estar (to be):

  • bi'stá augua.
  • bi'stava augua.
  • There is a first-person personal ending-i in some tenses:

  • yo fevai.
  • yo tenevai.
  • It is one of the few Aragonese varieties that still have this characteristic (it is believed that feve, teneve in Gistaín Aragonese is an evolution of this AI > e) that may also be found in the Spanish spoken in Embún, Salvatierra de Esca and Uncastillo and in the Aragonese language spoken in some villages in the North of the Cinco Villas such as Longás and Fuencalderas.

    References

    Ansó Aragonese Wikipedia