Spain: The pretty little village where locals don’t speak Spanish | World | News
Spain is famous for its regional dialects, which are a distinctive part of the country’s various identities and cultures. Although Spanish is the official and the most widely spoken language, there are many people.
These include common regional languages such as Catalan, Valencian, Galician and Basque. However, there is a unique language spoken by the overwhelming majority of people in the three Spanish villages in the Extremadura region. Fala is the mother tongue in the small settlements of Valverde Del Fresno, Eljas and San Martín de Trevejo.
These three villages are located at the border between Spain and Portugal and have a total population of about 4,500.
Compared to other European minority languages, a fortune is a unique social linguistic state, as it is estimated that the speakers in the population are up to 90%.
However, it is still a seriously dangerous language because it is used in small communities with intense contact with the external society.
A falla is part of the Ibero-Romance subgroup of romantic languages. It is classified as an independent language, not as a polish. A Fala (Valverdeñu, Lagiantiru and Mañugu) have three main varieties, which corresponds to the three villages where they are spoken.
However, they can easily be understood as there is always interaction among speakers who are proud of their private language diversity and identity.
Valverde Del Fresno Mayor José Núñez Vázquez emphasized how geography shapes this language: “The valley is closed to Spain in Spain, but its natural output Portugal. Interaction with the Portuguese was fixed.”
Today, together with the University of Extremadura and international experts, all three councils are working on a written standard to formalize a Fala.
Language was declared in 2000, the existence of cultural interest, but is not taught in any school in the villages. Recently, there have been individual school projects that support the existence of language at school.
