() is a dialect of Leonese or Extremaduran spoken in the subregion of El Rebollar, in Salamanca (Spain): NavasfrÃÂas (), El Payo (), Peñaparda (), Villasrubias () and Robleda ().
Some authors calculate more speakers among the Rebollar emigrants in France than in the dialect original area.
Characteristics
- Final vowels are closed in "-I" and "-U" (in Spanish the same final vowels are in "-E" and "-O"): "perru" (Spanish perro, English dog), "rÃÂu" (Spanish rÃÂo, 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.
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