Bable

By Trevor
Posted Wednesday October 25th 2006 23:23.

Pleasingly, Bable is used as a synonym for Astur-Leonese, aka Leonese etc. The name was apparently popularised by someone called Xovellanos in the C18th and taken from someone else I’ve never heard of called González Posada. Its origin is (still apparently) unknown but its use is widespread and it appears in the inevitable references to language in the Asturian statute of autonomy (“4:1 Bable will enjoy protection”). Gogol would surely have been asked by his editor to be more specific had he written “every cock has its Spain, tucked away under its feathers” and the rest of Diary of a madman 170 years later. (Babel is of course standard Spanish and I believe Asturian for Babel, so don’t get too pleased all at once.)


Categories: Languages, Splog

« Brilliant pushbike and scooter photos · “Prussian Jews wanted to come back to Spain in 1854″ »

RSS: post comments, blog comments, blog posts

You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Share this post
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google
  • BlinkList
  • LinkedIn
  • Live
  • Ma.gnolia
  • Meneame
  • MySpace
  • NewsVine
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati
See also
    • This feature doesn't work without post tags, and there don't seem to be any for this post.
    • This feature doesn't work without post tags, and there don't seem to be any for this post.
Writing and translation

Check out the services I provide over at Oreneta.com

More begging

If you're feeling generous, check out my Amazon wishlists (Deutschland / France / UK) or use PayPal to

On this day

Barcelona

  • July 5 1522 Solemnes rogativas para el feliz viage del rey D. Cárlos I que venia de Alemania, á donde fue para tomar posesion del imperio.
  • July 5 1844 

    I am delighted with Barcelona. It is a beautiful city, especially the new part, with a mixture of Spanish, French, and Italian character. The climate is soft and voluptuous, the heats being tempered by the sea breezes. Instead of the naked desert which surrounds Madrid, we have here, between the ...

  • July 5 1848 

    En la iglesia de la Trinidad, hoy parroquia de San Jaime, se celebra una solemne funcion en honor del
    beato Miguel de los Santos que habia pertenecido á la órden trinitaria, y cuya imágen se venera en un altar de dicha iglesia. La concurrencia no es reducida, y de las tres partes las dos...

  • July 5 1899 

    SPANISH MOBS STILL ACTIVE.; Further Disturbances at Alicante, Valencia, and Barcelona.

  • July 5 1909 

    MORE BOMBS IN BARCELONA.; One Explodes in Cafe, Another Found at Circus Wrecks a Van.

Palafrugell and thereabouts

  • Sorry, nothing doing today.

The peepul's choice

Back to top