Fala

Also known as Fala language, Xalimego, Xalimego language

Galician-Portuguese language

Key facts

Native to: Spain
Region: northwestern</span>"}]]}'>NW Extremadura
Native speakers: (11,000 cited 1994)
Language family: Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Italo-Western Western Ibero-Romance West Iberian Galician–Portuguese Fala
Early forms: Old Latin Vulgar Latin Proto-Romance Galician–Portuguese
Iso 639 3: fax
Glottolog: fala1241

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number of speakers, writers, or signers: 11000

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Area of the Fala language.

Fala ("speech", also called Xalimego) is a Western Romance language commonly classified in the Galician–Portuguese subgroup, with some traits from Leonese, spoken in Spain by about 10,500 people, of whom 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 Trevellu). These are within the valley of Jálama, in the comarca of Sierra de Gata.