Fala
Fala
Spoken in	Spain
Region	autonomous community of Extremadura.
Total speakers	6,500
Language family	Indo-European Italic Romance Italo-Western Gallo-Iberian Ibero-Romance West Iberian Portuguese-Galician Fala
Official status
Official language in	None
Regulated by	none
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2	roa
ISO 639-3	fax
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

Fala ("Speech") is a Romance language from the Portuguese-Galician subgroup mixed with Leonese spoken in Spain by about 10,500 people, of which 5,500 live in a valley of the northwestern part of Extremadura near the border with Portugal. The speakers of Fala live in the towns of Valverde del Fresno (Valverdi du Fresnu), Eljas (As Ellas) and San Martín de Trevejo (Sa Martín de Trebellu).

[edit] See also

• Galician-Portuguese
• Leonese language
• Portuguese
• Galician
• Fala dos arxinas ("Stonecutters' speech") is a cant spoken by Galician stonecutters.
• Portuñol

[edit] External links

• Ethnologue report for the Fala

v • d • e Romance languages   Italo-Western   Gallo-Iberian Gallo-Italian Ligurian Genoese · Monégasque Lombard Eastern · Western · Gallo-Sicilian Others Emiliano-Romagnolo · Piedmontese · Venetian Gallo-Rhaetian Langues d'oïl Burgundian · Champenois · Franc-Comtois · French · Gallo · Lorrain · Norman · Picard · Poitevin · Saintongeais · Walloon Rhaeto-Romance Friulian · Ladin · Romansh Others Franco-Provençal Oc Catalan Algherese · Balearic · Central · Valencian Occitan Auvergnat · Gascon · Languedocien · Limousin · Vivaro-Alpine · Provençal · Shuadit Iberian Astur-Leonese Asturian · Cantabrian · Extremaduran · Leonese · Mirandese Portuguese Brazilian · European (Barranquenho)  · African (Angolan, Cape Verdean, Guinean, Mozambican, São Tomean)  · East Timorese · Macanese Galician Fala · Eonavian Spanish (Castilian) Latin American · Peninsular (Ladino / Caló)  · African (Equatoguinean) Italo-Dalmatian Italian Central · Tuscan · Romanesco · Corsican (Gallurese) Neapolitan Southern Italian dialects Others Dalmatian · Istriot · Judeo-Italian · Sicilian Others Aragonese · Mozarabic   Eastern and Southern Eastern Romanian Moldovan · Vlach Others Aromanian · Megleno-Romanian · Istro-Romanian Southern Sardinian Campidanese · Logudorese · Sassarese Italics indicate extinct languages; bold indicates languages with more than 5 million speakers.

This Indo-European languages-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v • d • e