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Language code: mwl

Technical information about ISO 639 language code mwl

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The table below provides technical details for the Mirandese language, designated by the mwl code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

mwl

Name

Mirandese

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Central MirandeseSendinese (Southern Mirandese)Rionorese (Northern Mirandese)
Related languages
AsturianLeoneseExtremaduranSpanishPortuguese
Key facts
Spoken by roughly 10,000–15,000 peopleMember of the Astur-Leonese subgroup of West Iberian RomanceOrthography was standardised in the late 1990s and uses digraphs like lh, nh and txLiterature ranges from medieval charters to modern translations such as Don Quixote and AsterixMirandese has had its own edition of Wikipedia since 2016
Sample phrase

Óla, cumu tas?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Mirandese language, identified by the code mwl, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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