Aragonese (Aragonés)

Aragonese is a Romance language spoken mainly in Aragon in Spain. The speakers are concentrated in the valleys of the Aragon River, Sobrarbe and Ribagorza. There are about 10,000 native speakers, including 500 elderly monolinguals, and some 20,000 people speak the language as a second language.

The Academy of the Aragonese Language (Academia de l'Aragonés) has developed an official orthography for Aragonese (shown below). There are a number of other orthographies.

Aragonese alphabet

Aragonese pronunciation

Notes

c is pronounced [θ] before e and i, and [k] elsewhere
g is pronounced [x] before e and i (in Spanish loanwords), and [g~ɣ] elsewhere
gu is pronounced [g~ɣ] before e, i; [gw~ɣw] before a, o; and [gu~ɣu] elsewhere
gü is pronounced [gw~ɣw] before e and i
h is usually silent, and pronounced [x] in some loanwords
j and k are used in loanwords
qu is pronounced [k] before e and i; and [kw] before a and o
qü is pronounced [kw] before e and i
r is pronounced r at the beginning of words, and [ɾ] elsewhere
tz is pronounced [ts] in the Benasquese dialect
w is only used in loanwords
ix is pronounced [iʃ] in eastern dialects, and [ʃ] in western dialects
Accents are used to indicate stress

Download an alphabet chart for Aragonese (Excel)

Information about the Aragonese alphabet and pronunciation compiled by Wolfram Siegel, with additional information from Michael Peter Füstumum

Sample text

Toz os ombres naxen libres y iguals en dinidat y en dreitos. Adotatos de razón y de conzenzia, deben apachar-sen unos con atros d'una manera freternal.

A recording of this text by Julijan Jovanovic

Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Videos in and about Aragonese

Information about Aragonese | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of Babel

Links

Information about the Aragonese language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aragonese_language
http://www.charrando.com
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idioma_aragonés
https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfabeto_aragonés

Aragonese lessons
http://babelang.free.fr/community/vocabulary_aragonese.php
http://www.unizar.es/unibersida/aragones/album.htm
http://www.charrando.com/info.php
http://www.aragob.es/edycul/patrimo/etno/yebra/indice.htm

Gramatica Basica de L'Aragonés (Basic Aragonese Grammar) - PDF
http://www.academiadelaragones.org/biblio/Edacar10_GBAprovisional.pdf

Academia de l'Aragonés
http://www.academiadelaragones.org

Romance languages

Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Asturian, Catalan, Corsican, Dalmatian, Emilian-Romagnol, Extremaduran, Fala, Franco-Provençal, French, Friulian, Galician, Gallo, Gascon, Genoese, Guernésiais, Istro-Romanian, Istriot, Italian, Jèrriais, Ladino, Ladin, Ligurian, Lombard, Lorrain, Megleno-Romanian, Mirandese, Moldovan, Monégasque, Mozarabic, Neapolitan, Occitan, Occitan (Auvergnat), Occitan (Languedocien), Occitan (Limousin), Occitan (Provençal), Picard, Piedmontese, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansh, Sardinian, Sicilian, Spanish, Valencian, Venetian, Walloon

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

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