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	Verbix -- Romance languages: conjugate Asturian verbs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Asturian is a Romance language derived from Latin.
		It is spoken nowadays in the Princedom of Asturias, in Spain.
		50,000 in Central Asturian, 30,000 in Western Asturian, 20,000 in Eastern Asturian.
	www.verbix.com /languages/asturiano.shtml (155 words)

	Asturian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Asturian, Leonese, Astur-Leonese or Bable (Asturianu in Asturian, Llïonés in Leonese) is a Romance language spoken in some parts of the provinces of Asturias, León, Zamora and Salamanca in Spain, and in the area of Miranda de Douro in Portugal (where it is officially recognized as Mirandese).
		However, the situation of Asturian is critical, with a large decline in the number of speakers in the last 100 years.
		In spite of all the difficulties that government policies (both the Asturian government and the Spanish government) have caused, the number of young people learning and using it (mainly as a written language) has substantially increased in recent years, mainly among intellectual groups and politically active Asturians and Leonese proud of their regional identity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asturian_language (401 words)

	Asturias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, a polimath and prominent reformer and politician of the late 18th century, was born in the seaside town of Gijón (Xixón in the Asturian language).
		The Asturian coast: especially the beaches in and around the summer resort of Llanes, and the Playa del Silencio near Cudillero fishing village.
		Asturian cheeses, especially Cabrales, are also famous throughout Spain and beyond; Cabrales is known for its pungent odour and strong flavour.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asturias (1900 words)

	ASTURIAN IN SPAIN
		Asturian is not used at all in the courts for official proceedings.
		Asturian is most used between relatives, friends and neighbours, while its use decreases progressively when we pass to work, banks, politics, visits to the doctor, studies and public offices.
		Asturian is not considered, by wide sectors of the population, as a full language.
	www.uoc.edu /euromosaic/web/document/asturia/an/i1/i1.html (5161 words)

	General Overview of the Asturian language
		Asturian (Asturianu) is a West Romance language mostly spoken in the Principality of Asturias (except for the most western part where Galaic-Asturian language is spoken), but also in northern Castilla y Leon, western Santander province (Asturies de Santillana) and the area surrounding the city of Miranda do Douro in north-eastern Portugal.
		In 1973 the I Asturian Assembly of the Bable was celebrated in Uvieu and marked the beginning of the process of political and social mobilisation on behalf of the Asturian language.
		Asturian is distinguished by the neuter agreement of the adjectives with the nouns of substance, cf.
	www.orbilat.com /Languages/Asturian/Asturian.htm (5767 words)

	MERCATOR :: Bulletin 37: Law 1/98, of March 23, on the Use and Promotion of the Asturian Language
		From such point of view, the Asturian language and its varieties build up a historic and cultural heritage which needs to be defended and preserved.
		Provisions, decisions and agreements by all Asturian institutional bodies, together with the laws adopted by the General Meeting, shall be publishable in Bable/Asturian, in a separate issue of Asturias' OFFICIAL JOURNAL.
		Asturian Town Councils shall be able to take the necessary measures to ensure the effectiveness of the exercise of the linguistic rights that this Law grants to all citizens residing in Asturias.
	www.ciemen.org /mercator/butlletins/37-03.htm (1682 words)

	Breeds of Livestock - Asturian Valley Cattle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Asturian Valley is a local Spanish beef breed of enormous foraging ability and good maternal qualities reared in extensive conditions in the southwest of the "Principado de Asturias" in the North of Spain.
		Asturian Valley have a straight profile, chestnut coats with tones ranging from very pale yellow in the lightest coats of the females to a reddish tone, with discolored cream in the inner part of the extremities and around the snout and fl in the end and front of the extremities.
		Asturian Valley cows are good mothers, calve with ease, show high fertility and wean large, well-shaped calves.
	www.ansi.okstate.edu /breeds/cattle/asturianvalley (376 words)

	The Asturian pipe
		The Asturian pipe is a folk instrument used by the country folk, and it became a part of daily life: parties, funerals, masses...
		Asturian pipe bands are appearing, musical lessons has been introduced in the learning process, methodbooks have appeared, folk groups...
		The pipe bands, with some luthiers, are introducing a second and third drone (but third it's not traditional), and the tone are in B flat, when in Asturias the tones were always between B and D. The Scottish influence has made a big polemic between traditional and evoliotonist in pipe bands.
	www.asturies.com /viesca/gaita/historen.htm (575 words)

	Meractor Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A survey carried out by the Asturian Government (1991) shows that of the population of 1.1m people, 36% consider Asturian to be their first language, while 32% consider it to be Spanish, 23% consider their first language to be a mixture of both and 5% consider both languages to be their first language.
		However, the language is protected by the Statute of Autonomy of Asturies (1981) which states that Asturian should be promoted and its use encouraged, taught at schools and used in the media.
		There is a youth magazine, Xyz and there are also a number of magazines in Asturian for schoolchildren; Lleo-Lleo, Rede C and La bígara, although these are translated into Asturian from other languages and used as teaching materials in schools.
	www.aber.ac.uk /~merwww/english/lang/asturian.htm (547 words)

	Asturian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Asturian language is spoken in most of the Principality of Asturias (except in the western strip beyond river Navia, where Galician is spoken), a land in the North of the Iberian Peninsula.
		It belongs to the linguistic group, which is made up of several dialects, although Asturian must be considered aseparate language, together with Mirandese (co-official in Miranda del Douro, in the Portuguese Republic); both of these languages may be seen as co-dialects, as it the case with Galician and Portuguese.
		Nenetheless, Asturian speakers have been moving away from their language over the last fifty yeaes due to the presence of Spanish as the official language of the state and the only one which was spoken in schools (even today the presence of Asturian in education is scarce).
	web.quipo.it /minola/asturian/asturian_intro.htm (509 words)

	Asturian language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There was a (Click link for more info and facts about diglossia) diglossia conflict between Asturian and Spanish, which resulted in some scholars considering it a dialect of (The Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain) Spanish.
		Castilian Spanish came to the area later, in the (Click link for more info and facts about 14th century) 14th century, when the central administration sent emissaries and functionaries to occupy political and ecclesiastical offices.
		Speakers are prevented from using it in its daily life because neither the administration nor private institutions will accept documents written in Asturian and usually do not pay attention to people trying to deal with them in Asturian.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/as/asturian_language.htm (384 words)

	Encyclopedia: Asturian language
		It is housed in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. As a means of recording the passage of time, the 14th century was that century which lasted from 1301 to...
		The Academia de la Llingua Asturiana or Academy of the Asturian Language is an organization that promotes and regulates the Asturian language, a language of the Spanish autonomous community of Asturias.
		Grammar is the discovery, enunciation, and study of rules governing the use of language.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Asturian-language (838 words)

	VirtualTourist.com - asturnut's Asturias Travelogue - Asturian Gastronomy (Food- Comidas) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Asturian food is different in many ways from what people typicaly think of 'Spanish' food.
		The difference between Asturian cooking and the rest of Spain is due in part to climate.
		Other Asturian cheeses that are not as strong, but equally good include: Ovin and Abredo (both cow's milk), la Chivita (goat milk), and ahumado de Pria (smoked cow's milk).
	www.virtualtourist.com /m/tt/1c9fe (875 words)

	Noticies de la CPN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Asturian is mostly spoken in the Principality of Asturias (except for the most western part where galaic-asturian language is spoken), but also in northern Castiella y León, western Santander province (Asturies de Santillana) and in north-eastern Portugal (Miranda).
		Asturian is the autochtonous language of the Asturian Nation and some parts of the land of León, Santander and Zamora (Spanish state) and the area surrounding the city of Miranda do Douro (Republic of Portugal) and there's also remains of the language in some parts of Salamanca and Cáceres provinces.
		In 1973 the I Asturian Assembly of the Bable was celebrated in Uviéu and marked the beginning of the process of political and social mobilisation on behalf of the Asturian language.
	www1.las.es /%7Ejfcastro/cpn.htm (7648 words)

	* Asturian - (Horse): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Asturian, also known as the Galician, is an ancient breed of pony originated from the Asturias region of Northern Spain.
		Also known as the Asturcon, the Asturian Pony is a pony from the Asturias region of Northern Spain...
		It is found to be related to other breeds derived from the Cantabrian-Pyrenean branch: the Portuguese Garrano, the Galician pony, the Asturian pony, the Thieldon, the Sorraia, the Navarre horse, the Basque Pottok,...
	www.bestknows.com /horse/asturian.html (256 words)

	CentralPets.com - Asturian Mountain Page (Printer Friendly Version)
		Asturian Mountain Cattle were traditionally kept in transhumant systems in which herdsmen would drive them up into summer pastureland and back down into more temperate valleys to overwinter.
		Eyelids, lashes and mucous membranes are generally fl in Asturian Mountain Cattle, and bulls have fl muzzles, horn buds and eye circles, tail switches and scrotum circles.
		Asturian Mountain Cattle have low rates of calf mortality and fairly good calving intervals, in addition to a low age at sexual maturity.
	centralpets.com /php/PrintFriendly.php?AnimalNumber=5118 (624 words)

	principal en inglés
		At the same time, he is capable of keeping the typical asturian timbre of the bagpipe, something that he considers to be the essence of its sound, following the tradition.
		Many asturian pipers have won important competitions, such as the McCallan Prize in the Interceltic Festival of Lorient, playing the instruments made by the artisan, both in Spain and abroad.
		It is important to point out the 1989 and 1998 editions of the Prize "Urogallo de Bronce" in the handycraft category, conceded by the Asturian Centre in Madrid, as well as many other recognitions to his work organised by the Town Councils of Oviedo, Gijón or El Entrego.
	www.geocities.com /alberto_velasco/ppalin.html (845 words)

	Asturian language
		Asturian or Asturleonés (also Bable, but this is a derogatory term) is a Romance language spoken in some parts of the provinces of Asturias and León in Spain, and in the area of Miranda de Douro in Portugal (where it is co-official and officially called Mirandes).
		Some scholars account it as a dialect of Spanish, whereas others treat it as a separate language.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/as/Asturian_language.html (83 words)

	Asturian Nationalist Movements (Spain)
		The flag reported by Dov Gutterman is that of Andecha Astur, an Asturian nationalist / independentist movement.
		Andecha is an Asturian word meaning that a group of friends or neighbours from the same rural area or village help each other to pick and collect the corn of the neighbouring fields.
		Ensame Nacionalista Astur used the Asturian flag with Covadonga [or Victory] cross without Alpha and Omega and with red star in canton (as the image [of Andecha Astur] reported by Dov Gutterman), but only in political meetings because the official flag of the party was white with fl emblem in center.
	flagspot.net /flags/es}o.html (322 words)

	Brenga Astur
		He also played in the Asturian folcloric group "L'Alborá" from the Asturian Center of Madrid where he won several prizes and recorded a CD.
		Multidrone Asturian bagpipes in B flat, thin whistle.
		Afterwards, he played in great Asturian Pipe bands for which Hevia was the pipe major, such as Villaviciosa Pipe Band.
	www.brengaastur.com /ingles/miemben.asp (293 words)

	Asturias - Oviendo , tourism in Spain . To travel in motorhome, motorcaravan, camper, wohnmobil, reisemobil or ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With the Asturian monarchy the Asturian style is born with magnificent constructions as Santa Maria del Naranco, San Miguel de Lilo, San Julián de los Prados Santa Cristina de Lena and San Salvador de Valdediós, all of them Patrimony of the Humanity declared by the UNESCO.
		Its coasts are generally abrupt for the proximity of the Mountain chain to the sea.
		It is the Asturian Clump, inside the Cantabrian Mountain chain the one that leads its relief, spreading from the Galician Clump up to the Mountain of Santander.
	217.127.101.235 /english/Destinos/oviedo.htm (590 words)

	Breeds of Livestock - Asturian Horse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Living in a feral state for the most part, under difficult conditions, the breed was facing extinction.
		The predominant colors for the Asturian is fl or bay with no white markings.
		The Asturian has a small although sometimes rather heavy head, with a straight profile, small ears, and large eyes; the neck is long and quite thin with a flowing mane; the withers are moderately high; the back straight and strong; the croup is sloping with a low tail-set; the shoulder is well sloped.
	www.ansi.okstate.edu /breeds/horses/asturian (409 words)

	Jim Higgins: Asturian Uprising/Warsaw Commune (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Asturian uprising was another of those episodes which testify to the courage, daring and inventiveness of the working class when it operates collectively in its own fundamental interest.
		On 4 October 1934, the Asturian Committee of the Workers Alliance took the decision for the uprising.
		It was a serious and courageous attempt to pre-empt the fascist menace with socialism, a policy decision that the Comintern, the German Communist Party and German Social Democracy had been unable to make in 1933, a failure for which we all subsequently paid, and are still paying, the price.
	www.marxists.org /archive/higgins/2002/xx/asturwarsaw.htm (1650 words)

	Asturian-American Migration Forum :: View topic - Can anyone recommend a good Asturian-Castilian dictionary?
		Another good dictionary to start to learn Asturian is Diccionariu Temáticu Asturianu by Ramón d'Andrés(Alborá Llibros 1991).In this dictionary words are classified by themes:Nature, Society, Man, being sometimes easier to find the right word in Asturian.
		What Jesus Neira did was to gather all class of popular words, mixing Asturian words, Castilian words correctly pronounced, Castilian words pronounced with Asturian accent, and aberrant words that are correct neither in a language nor in another one.
		All it directed to produce the sensation of degradation and little linguistic entity of the Asturian, the vision of a infinite dialectal fragmentation, and the impossibility to elaborate a cultured norm, to teach it in the school, and to make of our language a culture vehicle.
	www.asturianus.org /forum/viewtopic.php?p=924 (1054 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code:ast
		Population includes 50,000 in Central Asturian, 30,000 in Western Asturian, 20,000 in Eastern Asturian.
		Central Asturian is considered the model, and has the most speakers.
		The Academy of the Asturian Language was formed in 1981 to revive the academy of the 18th century.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=ast (320 words)

	Brenga Astur
		The instruments they play are the most popular and used in all these Celtic countries, as well as other instruments from all around the world: from traditional multidrone Asturian bagpipes, to Irish flutes, Asturian hand percussions, or the accordion, but also the acoustic guitars, bouzouki, bass guitar, voices and drums.
		In this way, they always play a sound that is closely attached to the Celtic spirit, the primary and most important idea of the group since it was created.
		Instruments played are two multidrone Asturian bagpipes in B flat, electric and acoustic guitars, Bouzouki, Asturian traditional hand percussions, bodhram, accordion, thin whistle and low whistle, bass guitar, and drums.
	www.brengaastur.com /ingles/princien.asp (263 words)

	Spanish art and architecture -> Moorish and Asturian Influences on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Characteristic of Asturian churches (9th cent.) is a basilican plan with square apses, rounded arches, and balustered windows.
		In Santa Maria de Naranco (mid-9th cent.) is found one of the earliest uses of barrel vaulting in the Middle Ages.
		The art and architecture of the Mozarabs (9th-11th cent.), combining Asturian and Moorish features, produced some of the most original and interesting European buildings of the time.
	encyclopedia.com /html/section/spanart_moorishandasturianinfluences.asp (725 words)

	Lessons of the Asturian Commune, October 1934
		The explanation for the curious behaviour of the Asturian CNT is to be found in the fact that the UGT and the CNT had almost equal forces in Asturias.
		The revolutionary Asturian proletariat was making up for the lack of means and experience with their class instinct and creativity.
		But the lack of coordination of the different areas where the uprising was taking place also made it very difficult for the militias to overcome their lack of ammunition and weapons.
	www.marxist.com /History/asturian_commune1934.htm (3370 words)

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