With only 10,000 native speakers (worldwide) Aragonese has been listed as
one of about half of the
world's 6,900 contemporary languages that could disappear in the next 90 years.
The main cause of the
serious state of this northern Spanish tongue is that some adults in the community are speakers, but very few children learn
it or use it.
Also known as Aragoieraz, Altoaragonés, Aragonés,
Fabla Aragonesa, Patués or High Aragonese, it is classified as Indo-European,
Middle Indo-European, Late Indo-European, Italic-Venetic, Italic,
Latino-Faliscan, Old Latin, Spoken Latin, Hispanic, Pyrenean-Mozarabic,
Pyrenean.
The variations and dialects have been divided into Western
Southern Central and Eastern Aragonese.
[Source: here.]
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