It's always great to see someone talking about Asturias from outside, specially from outside Spain! Just a few minor things though: 1: Asturian (and, for that matter, Leonese, Mirandese, and any other dialects/related languages) are significantly closer to Spanish than to Portuguese (this is specially visible with Mirandese, spoken in a small region of Portugal, which is waaay closer to Spanish than it is to Portuguese). 2: the "three genders" are... I mean, sorta there, but very hyped up. The "neuter" gender is only in adjectives (for example, secu/secos, seca/seques, and seco/secos (this last one being the neuter)), and it is used with both masculine and feminine nouns when they are uncountable mass nouns. An example would be "fueya" (leaf), which is countable, with "There's a dry leaf." being "Hay una fueya seca.", but a nice quirk this word has is that it's also uncountable sometimes (like how in English "dirt" is uncountable), and it used to mean a lot of leaves, generally on the ground or something, so then it could be "Hay fueya seco.". Sadly, some dialects of Asturian lack this (I think Montañés/Cantabrian, Leonés/Leonese and Extremeño/(idk how to translate this one) are all lacking it, and likely also Mirandese) (inside Asturias, parts towards the west I think don't always have it, although in the past I found this difficult to find online).
Central Asturian has a mass morpheme that can show up on some nouns, adjectives, direct object pronouns, demostratives, etc. in certain contexts. This has been traditionally referred to as "mass neuter" and indicates mass interpretation or agreement, among some other interpretations. Asturian doesn't have three grammatical genders though, nouns are masculine or feminine.
No ho a lo que se refiere es a que cuando hay palabras que son masculinas o femeninas incontables como "agua" "tiempu", al adjetivarlas se usa la terminación -o. Eg: L'agua tá frío or El tiempu pasa llento
@@Melancholia3008 pero "agua" sigue siendo un sustantivo femenino. Si es no contable eso tiene que ver más con número y no con el género del sustantivo. Además, me imagino que sí puedes contar agua. Cuando vas al chigre y te cansaste de tomar la sidra, le puedes decir al barman "prestaríame dos agües", ¿no?
One thing is the article (in Asturian L', El, La, Lo, Los, Les, Ún, Una, Unos, Unes) and an other different thing the neuter adjective. This is made for a uncountable noun. For example, instead of saying " El agua está fría" as in Spanish, in Asturian we use the neuter -o "L'aga tá frío" ("The water is cold"), or instead of saying "La gente está muy callada" as in Spanish, we say "La xente tá mu'caḷḷao" ("People is shut ") Just notice the adjectives ending in -o because of the neuter nouns. Examples for adjectives. Masc countable nouns: " El perro está muerto" -o "El cán tá morríu" -u "The dog is dead" Fem countable nouns: "La cima de la montaña está blanca" -a "La cumbria la muntanna tá alba" -a "The top of the mountain is white" Uncountable nouns: "La sangre roja salía de su pecho" "La sangue colorao sallía de'l so peitu" "The red blood poured from his chest"
It's always great to see someone talking about Asturias from outside, specially from outside Spain! Just a few minor things though:
1: Asturian (and, for that matter, Leonese, Mirandese, and any other dialects/related languages) are significantly closer to Spanish than to Portuguese (this is specially visible with Mirandese, spoken in a small region of Portugal, which is waaay closer to Spanish than it is to Portuguese).
2: the "three genders" are... I mean, sorta there, but very hyped up. The "neuter" gender is only in adjectives (for example, secu/secos, seca/seques, and seco/secos (this last one being the neuter)), and it is used with both masculine and feminine nouns when they are uncountable mass nouns. An example would be "fueya" (leaf), which is countable, with "There's a dry leaf." being "Hay una fueya seca.", but a nice quirk this word has is that it's also uncountable sometimes (like how in English "dirt" is uncountable), and it used to mean a lot of leaves, generally on the ground or something, so then it could be "Hay fueya seco.". Sadly, some dialects of Asturian lack this (I think Montañés/Cantabrian, Leonés/Leonese and Extremeño/(idk how to translate this one) are all lacking it, and likely also Mirandese) (inside Asturias, parts towards the west I think don't always have it, although in the past I found this difficult to find online).
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Central Asturian has a mass morpheme that can show up on some nouns, adjectives, direct object pronouns, demostratives, etc. in certain contexts. This has been traditionally referred to as "mass neuter" and indicates mass interpretation or agreement, among some other interpretations. Asturian doesn't have three grammatical genders though, nouns are masculine or feminine.
No ho a lo que se refiere es a que cuando hay palabras que son masculinas o femeninas incontables como "agua" "tiempu", al adjetivarlas se usa la terminación -o. Eg: L'agua tá frío or El tiempu pasa llento
@@Melancholia3008 sí, pero ese adjetivo no es neutro como la literatura sugiere
@@Fotophrame1 El agua es neutro en tanto que tu no pude contar el agua. Un agua, dos agües, tres agües... no existe
@@Melancholia3008 pero "agua" sigue siendo un sustantivo femenino. Si es no contable eso tiene que ver más con número y no con el género del sustantivo. Además, me imagino que sí puedes contar agua. Cuando vas al chigre y te cansaste de tomar la sidra, le puedes decir al barman "prestaríame dos agües", ¿no?
What about the aragonese lenguage in Aragón, Spain (my lenguage jejejeje)
I think it's the next one.
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There’s neutral in Spanish We also call it ‘común’. Examples: estudiante, intérprete, idiota, inteligente, amable, azul, verde, carmelita, capaz, etc.
never heard of it. i thought i knew stuff!
It's so similar to Spanish it just looks like some weird Spanish accent
but it's not
I would love to put a Spanish and Portuguese speaker in a room and tell each other that they don’t speak very good Spanish or Portuguese
WHAT
Uh, French has three articles and Italian has seven. Both are considered romance languages.
who tf talked about articles? i'm sry if i'm not getting your point...
@@PhantomKING113 you know you're not even worth bothering to reply to.
One thing is the article (in Asturian L', El, La, Lo, Los, Les, Ún, Una, Unos, Unes) and an other different thing the neuter adjective. This is made for a uncountable noun. For example, instead of saying " El agua está fría" as in Spanish, in Asturian we use the neuter -o "L'aga tá frío" ("The water is cold"), or instead of saying "La gente está muy callada" as in Spanish, we say "La xente tá mu'caḷḷao" ("People is shut ") Just notice the adjectives ending in -o because of the neuter nouns.
Examples for adjectives.
Masc countable nouns:
" El perro está muerto" -o
"El cán tá morríu" -u
"The dog is dead"
Fem countable nouns:
"La cima de la montaña está blanca" -a
"La cumbria la muntanna tá alba" -a
"The top of the mountain is white"
Uncountable nouns:
"La sangre roja salía de su pecho"
"La sangue colorao sallía de'l so peitu"
"The red blood poured from his chest"
@@nunyabizznis2198 & your father didnt boher to put on a condom. Laziness from you father was his mistake, & i guess you take after him well
Asturian has only two, the neuter gender doesn't have an article in Asturian (but it has a pronoun)