Palra d'El Rebollal

Palra d'El Rebollal
Calli la Calzá, a street in Robleda, labelled in Palra and Spanish
Native to	Spain
Region	El Rebollar
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Italo-Western Western Ibero-Romance West Iberian Asturleonese Eastern Astur-Leonese [1] Palra d'El Rebollal
Early forms	Old Latin Vulgar Latin Proto-Romance Old Leonese
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

Palra d'El Rebollal (Spanish : habla del Rebollar) is a dialect of Leonese or Extremaduran spoken in the subregion of El Rebollar, in Salamanca (Spain): Navasfrías (Navafrías), El Payo (Payu), Peñaparda (Peñaparda), Villasrubias (Villarrubias) and Robleda (Robrea).

Some authors calculate more speakers among the Rebollar emigrants in France than in the dialect original area. ^[2]

Characteristics

• Final vocals are closed in "-I" and "-U" (in Spanish the same final vocals are in "-E" and "-O"): "perru" (Spanish perro, English dog), "ríu" (Spanish río, English river), "verdi" (Spanish verde, English green),...
• Article is used with the possessive adjective. "La mi cassa" (Spanish Mi casa, English my house), "el mi dagal" (Spanish mi niño, English my child, my son),...
• Although most words exhibiting it are no longer used, a common plural ending was -is. Examples: las cucharis, las vaquis.

Recognition

Some of the Rebollar villages have labelled streets and trekking routes in Spanish and Palra. ^[2]

See also

• José Benito Mateos Pascual

References

1. Llorente Maldonado, Antonio (1982). El habla de Salamanca y su provincia (PDF).
2. Casamar (2021-11-25). "Así es el dialecto leonés que sobrevive en El Rebollar". www.lagacetadesalamanca.es (in European Spanish). Retrieved 20 May 2022.

External links

• La Gurulla, journal in palra d'El Rebollal