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Loly Estévez

Do you like the cassoulet? Well, I invite you. Yes, I invite you, but not to the temptation of some broad beans cooked in a fire. I intend to arouse curiosity about academic and popular in the Astur-Leonese speech, which caused me the same conversation with Urbano Rodriguez Vazquez, deputy secretary of the Academy of the Asturian Language.
In the current territory of Asturias there are archaeological traces of settlers during the first millennium BC. But the first linguistic evidence appear on the testimony of the Romans from the 1st Century BC, when a speech replacement evolution of Astur-Leonese by Latin began, with the inevitable mixtures. Experts indicate to the Middle Ages as the time from which can be considered the Astur-Leonese as a distinct language from Latin. The speakers were responsible for imposing the Astur-leonese so that in the 13th Century its writing was already extended.
In the 14th Century, Gutierre de Toledo was appointed bishop of the church Asturian Castilian, who imposed the speech of Castile as the ecclesiastical language. From there onwards it began the so-called Dark Ages (14th to 17th Century) when people stopped writing in Astur-leonese, favoring Castilian and Portuguese which produced the sociolinguistic situation known as diglossia, since the people kept talking Astur-leonese. In the 18th century, Asturian renowned intellectuals, who are synthesized in the respected name of Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, began a hard process of claiming the Astur-leonese language. The Asturian Language Academy was established in 1980.
Academic Ramon de Andres Diaz says: "In Asturias there are eight union jargons whose base language is the Asturian".
A look at the dictionaries shows that the beans or special aluvias for the typical dish would be nothing without the compangu (chorizos, blood sausages, ham and bacon) served in separate plate. That is all that accompanies or acompanga very well with each other and with the bread. This follows from the Latin roots of those words, reinforcing the fierce defense of Asturians about the Astur-Leonese having its own life and language origins as the languages of Latin root. The creators of languages, the speakers, practice and enrich their peculiar intonation and way of naming the world.