Old Leonese language

Old Leonese
Old Leonese
romançe, romançio, vulgar
Region	Kingdom of León
Ethnicity	Asturians; Leonese
Era	Evolved into Asturian-Leonese, Mirandese, and possibly Cantabrian and Extremaduran by 1500.
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Italo-Western Western Ibero-Romance West Iberian Asturleonese Old Leonese; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Old Latin Vulgar Latin Proto-Romance ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
	The extent of the language around the 13th to 14th centuries

Old Leonese, Medieval Leonese, Medieval Asturian or Medieval Asturleonese was a West Iberian dialect of Vulgar Latin spoken in several regions of the Kingdom of León, including the medieval Principality of Asturias. It is the direct ancestor of current Asturleonese varieties. Old Leonese was spoken until around the year 1500, and was attested starting from the 10th century with the Nodicia de kesos.