Felechosa is a village in

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, in El Pino Parish of Aller Municipality. Its dialect of Asturian is different from many others of the region.

Language

Felechosa's dialect of the

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is known for distinguishing masculine singular nouns from mass nouns by raising the stressed vowel, with

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becoming

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and / a/ becoming / e/. This extends to the adjective paradigm, with the word for "good" declining as winoin the masculine singular rather than

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as in other dialects of Asturian.

References

Populated places in Asturias {{asturias-geo-stub