Can a Spanish Speaker Understand Leonese, Asturian and Cebuano Bisaya? Less know languages

Today we will explore some less known romance languages and also languages of the Philippines. Spanish will be compared with these Spanish related languages.
Leonese, Asturian, Cebuano (Bisaya)

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Transcript

So this is a continuation of a series that I call...Can a Spanish speaker understand Romance language edition.

Today we will look at Leonese, Asturian and Cebuano. Yes, we will first look at Spain and then the Philippines.

This journey of exploring these languages has been amazing because of you. You guys have taught me so much and I love the comments that you leave educating me further about these languages.

Leonese
So leonese is spoken by about a max of 50,000 people in the region of Castilla y Leon. However, in the middle ages it was more widely spoken until Castillian Spanish became the official language of Spain. It is considered a seriously endangered language by Unesco and they estimate that it could disappear in 2 generations. However, there has been a push for learning Leonese and promoting it in cities like Leon, Salamanca and Zamora. With this humble video I hope to contribute to keeping this language alive. People of the world let’s keep Leonese! Let’s listen to it,


Asturian
So Asturian, formerly known as Bable (a name that I love), and Leonese are actually two dialects of the same language Astur-leonese. Asturian however has more speakers and has had more efforts to survive. There has been the creation of the Asturian Language Academy, dictionaries and periodicals to keep it alive. Asturianu is spoken in the principality of Asturias and it has over 100,000 speakers. Not too bad. Let’s check it out.

Cebuano (Bisaya)
Cebuano or Bisaya is not an endangered language like the other described. It has 20 million speakers. Whaaaat? Yeah 20 and six zeros. This language has been loosely influenced by Spanish, English, Sanskrit, Arabic… Wow very rich.
A fun fact about these languages is that they have a separate set of words for numbers when talking about money and they are Spanish derived.