Murcian Spanish

Murcian Spanish
Murcian Spanish
murciano
Pronunciation	[muɾˈθjano]
Native to	Spain
Region	Murcia, Andalusia (Almería, partially in Jaén and Granada), Castile–La Mancha (Albacete) and Valencia (Vega Baja, Alicante)
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Romance Italo-Western Western Ibero-Romance West Iberian Castilian Spanish Peninsular Spanish Murcian Spanish; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Proto-Indo-European Proto-Italic Proto-Latino-Faliscan Old Latin Vulgar Latin ... Old Spanish Early Modern Spanish ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Spanish orthography (Latin script)
Official status
Official language in	Spain
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None
IETF	es-u-sd-esmc

Murcian (endonym: murciano) is a variant of Peninsular Spanish, spoken mainly in the autonomous community of Murcia and the adjacent comarcas of Vega Baja del Segura and Alto Vinalopó in the province of Alicante (Valencia), and the corridor of Almansa in Albacete (Castile–La Mancha). In a greater extent, it may also include some areas that were part of the former Kingdom of Murcia, such as southeastern Albacete (now part of Castile–La Mancha) and parts of Almería, Jaén and Granada (now part of Andalusia).

Murcian linguistically borders Valencian (Catalan) and other Southern Peninsular Spanish varieties. The linguistic varieties of Murcian form a dialect continuum with Eastern Andalusian and Manchego Peninsular Spanish.

Murcian is considered a separate language from Spanish by some of its native speakers and by proponents of Murcianism, who call it llengua murciana. The term panocho is also used to designate the Murcian language; however it mostly refers to the variety spoken in the comarca of the Huerta de Murcia.