[Wikipedia-l] Re: New Language

Sun Nov 13 23:55:52 UTC 2005

Omar Alvarez wrote:
>>And Aragonese or Asturian are not more different from castilian as
>>andalusian, they were it in the past, but not today.
> 
> That's not true. First of all, Aragonose and Asturian are not dialects
> from spanish, they derive directly from latin.

Uhm... whether you consider them a dialect of Spanish or not is pretty 
much independent of whether it derives from Latin or not. All Romance 
languages/dialects/whatever derive from Latin, including Spanish, 
Asturian and Andalusian.

Timwi