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AS Lenguas
Vocabulary for Language Issues
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| el castellano | Spanish, spoken in Spain |
| el catalán | Catalan, spoken in Catalonia, Valencia, Mallorca, Ibiza, Menorca, Andorra and L'Alguer in Italy. |
| Cataluña | Catalonia |
| Los Países Catalanes | Overarching term for the Catalan-speaking, or Catalan-identifying regions |
| Euskera, el vasco | Basque |
| Euskal Herria | Basque for "The Basque Country" |
| El País Vasco | Regional boundaries vary, but usually "The Basque Country", Navarra, and parts of Southern France are included in this term. |
| el gallego | Galician, spoken in north-west Spain. |
| Galicia | region and province in north-west Spain, above Portugal |
| Aymara, Aimará | Aymara, a native language of Bolivia |
| Náhuatl | A native language of Mexico |
| Quechua | A native language spoken across Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru |
| Mapuche | A native language spoken in Chile and Argentina |
| Guaraní | A native language spoken in Paraguay and Argentina |
| caló | A gypsy language spoken by the Romany in Spain and Portugal |
| el árabe | Arabic, an influence on most Iberian (Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Galician) languages |
| el latín | Latin, an influence on most Iberian languages |
| lenguas romances | Romance Languages (languages that derive from Latin) |
| el aranés | Aranese, spoken in the Val d'Aran region of Catalonia. All education there teaches Spanish, Catalan AND Aranese. |
| la lengua, el idioma | language |
| la lengua | tongue |
| la lengua materna | mother tongue |
| el lenguaje corporal | body language |
| el lenguaje de gestos | sign language |
| las lenguas amerindias | Native American languages (including Mapuche, Quechua etc.) |
| los fenómenos lingüisticos | linguistic phenomena |
| el spanglish | Spanglish |
| el lenguaje de los jovenes | youth language |
| la pronunciación | pronunciation |
| la ortografia | spelling |
| el dialecto | dialect |
| la jerga coloquial | jargon |
| el argot | slang |
| la procedencia | origin |
| prevenir | to come from |
| las lenguas minoritarias | minority languages |
| fomentar | to promote, to encourage |
| lengua oficial | official language |
| lengua cooficial | co-official language |
| monolingüismo, monolingüe | monolingualism, monolingual |
| bilingüismo, bilingüe | bilingualism, bilingual |
| plurilingüe | multilingual |
| bilingüismo aditivo | When you learn to speak a second language and it benefits you (and you speak it as well as your first) |
| bilingüismo sustractivo | When you speak one language for socioeconomic reasons, but it harms your mother tongue (e.g. moving to France, speaking only French, and forgetting "how to English") |
| codificación | codification, setting of rules and standards |
| estándar | standard |
| corpus | what a language is made out of |
| educación bilingüe | bilingual education |
| estandardización | standardisation |
| inmersión | immersion |
| inmersión a doble via | immersion where both languages aren't the first language (e.g. the child of an African immigrant in Spain has to learn Spanish and Catalan in equal amounts.) |
| lengua agrafa | A language spoken and not written (usually a native minority language, e.g. Cornish before the 1970s) |
| Academia de la Lengua Vasca, Euskaltzaindia | The body which standardises the Basque Language |
| Real Academia Española, la RAE | The body which standardises the Spanish Language |
| Institut d'Estudis Catalans, L'IEC | The body which standardises the Catalan Language |
| Academia Valenciana de la Lengua | The body which standardises the Valencian dialect of Catalan |
| Institut Ramon Llull | The body which provides Catalan education and promotes Catalan internationally |
| Real Academia Gallega | The body which standardises the Galician language |
| ikastolas | clandestine schools in the Basque country which taught children Basque during the Franco regime |
| leyes de normalización | Laws passed in the 1980s declaring certain languages co-official in Spain, particularly Catalan |
| castellanohablante | Spanish-speaking |
| euskerahablante | Basque-speaking |
| catalanohablante | Catalan-speaking (catalanoparlant in Catalan) |
| ELE | Spanish for Foreigners (Español como Lengua Extranjera) |
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