What is Aragonese language?
{{Infobox language |name=Aragonese |nativename={{lang|an|aragonés}} |pronunciation={{IPA-an|aɾaɣoˈnes}} |ethnicity=[[Aragonese people]] |states=[[Spain]] |region=[[Aragon]]; northern and central [[province of Huesca|Huesca]] and northern [[Zaragoza (province)|Zaragoza]] |speakers=25,500 (2011)<ref>[https://zaguan.unizar.es/record/60448] Report about Census of population 2011 of Aragonese Sociolinguistics Seminar and University of Zaragoza </ref> including speakers living outside the native area |date=2011 |familycolor=Indo-European |fam2=[[Italic languages|Italic]] |fam3=[[Romance languages|Romance]] |fam4=[[Ibero-Romance languages|Ibero-Romance]] |fam5= |ancestor=[[Navarro-Aragonese]] |script=[[Latin script|Latin]] (Aragonese alphabet) |agency=[[Academia d'a Luenga Aragonesa]] |iso1=an |iso2=arg |iso3=arg |glotto=arag1245 |glottorefname=Aragonese |lingua=51-AAA-d |map=Bariedaz lingüisticas d'Aragón.png |mapsize=250 |mapcaption=Map of Aragon with the [[Aragonese dialects|dialects]] of northern Aragon in gray, blue, and light orange |notice=IPA }} The '''Aragonese language''' is a [[Romance languages|Romance language]] spoken in the north of [[Aragon]] by 10,000 people. It is similar to nearby languages: [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[Catalan language|Catalan]] and [[Occitan language|Occitan]]. Also, many Aragonese words are similar to [[Basque language|Basque]] words. == History == Aragonese, which developed in parts of the Ebro [[basin]], can be traced back to the High Middle Ages. It spread throughout the Pyrenees to areas where languages almost the same as modern Basque might have been spoken before. The Kingdom of Aragon (formed by the counties of Aragon, Sobrarbe and Ribagorza) expanded to the south from the mountains. It pushed the Moors farther south in the Reconquista and spreading the Aragonese language. The union of the Catalan counties and the Kingdom of Aragon which formed the 12th-century Crown of Aragon did not merge the languages of the two areas; Catalan continued to be spoken in the east and