Palra d'El Rebollal
| Palra d'El Rebollal | |
|---|---|
 Calli la Calzá, a street in Robleda, labelled in Palra and Spanish | |
| Native to | Spain |
| Region | El Rebollar |
Early forms | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
Palra d'El Rebollal (Spanish: habla del Rebollar) is a dialect of Eastern Astur-Leonese spoken in the subregion of El Rebollar, in Salamanca (Spain): Navasfrías (Navafrías), El Payo (Payu), Peñaparda (Peñaparda), Villasrubias (Villarrubias) and Robleda (Robrea).
Some authors calculate more speakers among the Rebollar emigrants in France than in the dialect original area.[2]
Characteristics
[edit]- Final vocals are closed in "-I" and "-U" (in Spanish the same final vocals are in "-E" and "-O"): "perru" (Spanish perro, English dog), "ríu" (Spanish río, English river), "verdi" (Spanish verde, English green),...
- Article is used with the possessive adjective. "La mi cassa" (Spanish Mi casa, English my house), "el mi dagal" (Spanish mi niño, English my child, my son),...
- Although most words exhibiting it are no longer used, a common plural ending was -is. Examples: las cucharis, las vaquis.
Recognition
[edit]Some of the Rebollar villages have labelled streets and trekking routes in Spanish and Palra.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Llorente Maldonado, Antonio (1982). El habla de Salamanca y su provincia (PDF).
- ^ a b Casamar (2021-11-25). "Así es el dialecto leonés que sobrevive en El Rebollar". www.lagacetadesalamanca.es (in European Spanish). Retrieved 20 May 2022.
External links
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