Aceuchi

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aceúchi or aceucheñu is a dialect of Extremadura spoken in Acehúche, in the northwest of the province of Cáceres, autonomous community of Extremadura (Spain).

Some linguists[which one?] believe that this language has its own defined personality to give it the rank of dialect, since it has its own phonetic and syntactic system.

Classification

Indo-European
> Italic
> GroupRomance
> Romance
> Italo-Western Romance Languages > Italo-Western Group - Western Subgroup
> Gallo-Iberian Group
> Ibero-Romance Group
> Ibero-Western Group
> Asturian-Leonese subgroup > extremeno

Speakers

820 (inhabitants of Acehúche according to the 2016 census). It is assumed that a large part of this static population speaks the Acehúche modality, as well as a thousand mobile population (mainly summer) or residents outside of Acehúche.