Fala language

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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`
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Fala ("Talk") is a Romance language from the Portuguese-Galician subgroup 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
Portuguese
Galician
Fala dos arxinas ("Stonecutters' talk") is a cant spoken by Galician stonecutters.

[edit] External links

Ethnologue report for the Fala

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Romance languages

Eastern

Romanian (Moldovan, Vlach) ♦ Aromanian ♦ Megleno-Romanian ♦ Istro-Romanian

Southern

Sassarese ♦ Sardinian (Campidanese, Logudorese)

Italo-
Western

Italo-
Dalmatian

Italian (Central Italian, Tuscan, Corsican cismontano, Romanesco) ♦ Dalmatian † ♦ Istriot ♦ Judeo-Italian ♦ Neapolitan (Calabrian), ♦ Sicilian

Gallo-
Iberian

Gallo- Italian	Emiliano-Romagnolo ♦ Ligurian (Genoese, Monégasque) ♦ Lombard (Eastern, Western, Gallo-siculo) ♦ Piedmontese ♦ Venetian

Gallo- Rhaetian	French ♦ Franco-Provençal ♦ other Oïl (Burgundian, Champenois, Franc-Comtois, Gallo, Lorrain, Norman, Picard, Poitevin, Saintongeais, Walloon) ♦ Rhaeto-Romance (Friulian, Ladin, Romansh)

Oc	Catalan (Algherese, Balearic, Central, Valencian) ♦ Occitan (Auvergnat, Gascon, Languedocien, Limousin, Vivaro-Alpine, Provençal, Shuadit †)

Iberian	Astur-Leonese (Asturian, Cantabrian, Extremaduran, Leonese, Mirandese) ♦ Portuguese* (inc. Barranquenho) & Galician (inc. Fala, Eonavian) ♦ Spanish (Castilian)* (Latin American, Peninsular, incl. Ladino, Caló)