lang_description: "Some people wish to consider the differences between Asturian and the varieties spoken in Cantabria, Spain as distinct enough to merit special consideration.",
classification: "Indo-European; Italic; Romance; Western Romance",
dialect_varieties: "Central Asturian; West Asturian; Western Asturian; Eastern Asturian; Leonese;",
public_comment: "",
private_comment: null,
source_id: null,
speakers: [
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older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: "550,000",
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: "There are 100,000 speakers in Spain (1994); 50,000 in Central Asturian; 30,000 in Western Asturian; 20,000 in Eastern Asturian. Data for the ethnic population was gathered in 1996.",
private_comment: null,
source_id:1511,
preferred: 0,
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speaker_number_text: "125,039",
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public_comment: "Spoken by around 100,000 people in Spain, and 10-15,000 in Portugal.",
domains_of_use: "The language is used in all situations except for official ones (like government, media, or the workplace). Almost all speakers value their language and feel positive about using it. Education and literacy are available in the language, but not desired by everyone. The government and/or other institutions support using the language in non-official domains.",