Indo-European · ISO 639-3 ast
Asturian Language asturianu
Asturian is an Indo-European language spoken by about 650,000 people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Asturian is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Asturian
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Italic
- Latino-Faliscan
- Latinic
- Imperial Latin
- Romance
- Italo-Western Romance
- Western Romance
- Shifted Western Romance
- Southwestern Shifted Romance
- West Ibero-Romance
- Asturo-Leonese
- Asturian
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Asturian language
Asturian (asturianu) is spoken by about 650,000 people, which makes it the 490th most spoken language in the world — just behind Tetum (820,000) and ahead of Lezghian (633,610). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Asturo-Leonese group within the Italic branch.
Where is Asturian spoken?
Asturian is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Spain (614,645).
Asturian is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Spain.
Writing system and status
Asturian is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, Papiamento, Catalan, Occitan (post 1500) and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 ast.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.