Asturian

Romance language of the West Iberian group
Language dialect Q29507
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Asturian

Summary

Asturian is a dialect[1]. Asturian ranks in the top 2% of dialect entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,423 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Asturian is in the country of Spain[3].
  • Asturian's instance of is recorded as dialect[4].
  • Asturian's instance of is recorded as modern language[5].
  • Asturian's instance of is recorded as natural language[6].
  • Asturian is a type of Asturleonese[7].
  • Asturian's writing system is recorded as Latin script[8].
  • Asturian's Commons category is recorded as Asturian language[9].
  • Asturian's Wikimedia language code is recorded as ast[10].
  • Asturian comprises Western Asturian[11].
  • Asturian comprises Xíriga[12].
  • Asturian's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 43.357138, 'lon': -5.865532}[13].
  • Asturian's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Asturian language[14].
  • Asturian's language regulatory body is recorded as Academy of the Asturian Language[15].
  • Asturian's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+110000'}[16].
  • Asturian's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+450000'}[17].
  • Asturian's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+100000'}[18].
  • Asturian's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+450000'}[19].
  • Asturian's topic has template is recorded as Q33125631[20].
  • Asturian's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ast', 'text': 'asturianu'}[21].
  • Asturian's UNESCO language status is recorded as 3 definitely endangered[22].
  • Asturian's indigenous to is recorded as Asturias[23].
  • Asturian's indigenous to is recorded as León Province[24].
  • Asturian's indigenous to is recorded as Cantabria[25].
  • Asturian's indigenous to is recorded as Zamora Province[26].
  • Asturian's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/AST[27].

Why It Matters

Asturian ranks in the top 2% of dialect entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,423 views/month).[2] Asturian has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Asturian is known by 48 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4d ago · David Ll L · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 43.357138, 'lon': -5.865532}
    Country → Spain
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P17]]: [[Q45]]"
  2. 4d ago · David Ll L · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 43.357138, 'lon': -5.865532}
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'an', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bn', 'br'
    P14691 → ast
    P14692 → Freguesia de Vila Cova de Alva
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P625]]: 42°35'47.634"N, 5°34'17.933"W"
  3. 9w ago · JhowieNitnek · 2026-07-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Openstreetmap key → name:ast
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P13786]]: name:ast"
  4. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → Western Asturian, Xíriga
    Subclass of → —
    Has parts → —
    Country → Spain
    + 20 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007541291105171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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