Mirandese is a Romance language of northeastern Portugal, spoken in and around Miranda do Douro near the Spanish border. It is not a dialect of Portuguese: it belongs to the Astur-Leonese group, which links it to Asturian across the border in Spain. Portugal granted Mirandese official recognition in 1999, making it the country's only co-official language alongside Portuguese. Speaker numbers are small, generally put at a few thousand, most of them older residents of the rural municipalities where the language survives. It is written in the Latin alphabet with its own spelling convention agreed in the late 1990s, and local schools now offer Mirandese classes to help keep the language alive.
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