Old Leonese | |
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Region | Kingdom of León |
Ethnicity | Asturians Leonese |
Era | Evolved into Asturian, Leonese, Mirandese, and possibly Cantabrian and Extremaduran by 1500. |
Early forms | Old Latin
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
![]() The extent of the language around the 13th to 14th centuries | |
Old Leonese or Medieval Leonese (Spanish: leonés medieval) was a West Iberian dialect of Vulgar Latin spoken in several regions of the Kingdom of León and the medieval Principality of Asturias. It was the ancestor of several languages, all forming the Asturleonese language family. Old Leonese was spoken until around the year 1500, and was attested starting from the 10th century with the Nodicia de kesos.