Aragonese people

Aragonese

Some notable Aragonese: 'Alfonso the Battler' 'Michael Servetus' 'Goya' 'Santiago Ramón y Cajal' 'Luis Buñuel' 'Ramón J. Sender' 'Pablo Serrano' 'Pablo Gargallo' 'Francisco Ascaso'
Total population
1,277,471
Regions with significant populations
In Spain: Aragon; Catalonia (as immigrants).
Languages
Aragonese, Spanish, Catalan.
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Latin peoples, including other Spanish peoples

The Aragonese are an ethnic group or nation living in the historical region of Aragon, between the centre and the north-east of Spain. Their native Aragonese language, which might have been spoken in the whole of the Kingdom of Aragon in the Middle Ages, is nowadays a seriously endangered language, natively spoken only by a few thousands in some northern villages.

Most Aragonese (90% or more) speak the Spanish language in its northern form but with some regional traits, particularly in intonation and vocabulary. The use of the native Aragonese language is decreasing and maybe dying out. In the easternmost areas, La Franja, varieties of the Catalan language are spoken by about the 90% of the Population ^[1]. Unlike in other Autonomous Communities of Spain, no law has officialized neither Aragonese nor Catalan yet.

References

See also

• List of Aragonese
• Aragon (autonomous community in the centre of north-eastern Spain)
• Kingdom of Aragon
• Crown of Aragon
• Nationalities of Spain
• Languages of Spain
• Castilian people
• Catalan people
• Leonese people

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