Extremaduran language) (Northern Extremaduran and Extremaduran are now identical because it is the only surviving dialect of the language) Old Central Extremaduran (Meyu Estremeñu) (extinct) (replaced by a Castilian based variety) Old Southern Extremaduran (Bahu Estremeñu) (extinct) (replaced by a Castilian based variety) Astur-Leonese (Asturian-Leonese dialect continuum) (transitional features between Cantabrian and Castilian to the east and Galician and Portuguese to the west) Old Astur-Leonese (extinct) Astur-Leonese (Asturllionés / Astur-Llionés / Llengua Astur-Llionesa) (at the present time it is spoken in Asturias and Northwestern León, however, in the past, until late 17th and 18th centuries, it was spoken in a wider area, including almost all of Leon region) (Astur-Leonese dialects have eastern, central and western dialect strips from north towards south with Asturian and Leonese subdialects or variants, although there is no clear linguistic division between both because the east, central and west dialect strips have more importance than an Asturian versus Leonese or vice versa distinction, that is, a North versus South dialectal distinction) Eastern Astur-Leonese Asturian dialects Leonese dialects (Llionés) Arribeiro (in La Ribera de Salamanca or Las Arribes, northwest Vitigudino Comarca, Northwest Salamanca Province), east of the border with northeast Portugal and the Douro river course) (severed from the Eastern Astur-Leonese dialects from the north by the Castilian expansion towards west) Riba Côa Leonese (people in the lands east of the low and middle Côa river course although, by the political border, were in far northeastern Beira historic province of Portugal, they were Leonese and not Galaico-Portuguese speakers until the 13th and 14th centuries) (once spoken in Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo and Almeida and east of Vila Nova de Foz Côa municipalities) Central Astur-Leonese Asturian dialects Northern Central (includes Oviedo – Uviéu and Gijón – Xixón) Southern Central Leonese dialects (in the past it included Llión / León, but people there shifted to a Leonese Castilian variety, Leonese substrate) Leonese Proper (once spoken in León city and territory) (extinct) Sayagüés (in Sayago Comarca, southwestern Zamora Province) Western Astur-Leonese Asturian dialects A Zone B Zone C Zone D Zone Brañas Vaqueiras dialect Leonese dialects Central Western Leonese (includes Astorga) Berzian-Cabreirese (in Eastern El Bierzo and Cabreira) Sanabrian / Senabrian (Senabrés) (in Sanabria; Senabria in Astur-Leonese; Seabra in Galician) Riudeonore-Guadramil-Deilon-Quintanilha Leonese – spoken in the four border villages of Riudeonore (Rio de Onor), Guadramil, Deilon (Deilão) and Quintanilha, in the Trás-os-Montes historic province, Bragança District (Portuguese District = County),