The Sociedat de Lingüistica Aragonesa - the Society of Aragonese Linguistics (or Sociedad de Lingüística Aragonesa in Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

) is a society dedicated to the promotion of the Aragonese language

Aragonese language

Aragonese is a Romance language now spoken in a number of local varieties by between 10,000 and 30,000 people over the valleys of the Aragón River, Sobrarbe and Ribagorza in Aragon, Spain...

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It was founded in 2004 to provide an alternative to the Consello d'a Fabla Aragonesa (Council of the Aragonese Language). It produced an alternative to the Huesca orthography (Grafía Huesca), which is promoted by the Consello but considered to be too artificial by the proponents of the SLA orthography. The SLA spelling is based on spelling conventions common to other Romance languages

Romance languages

The Romance languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family, more precisely of the Italic languages subfamily, comprising all the languages that descend from Vulgar Latin, the language of ancient Rome...

 such as Catalan

Catalan language

Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...

 and Occitan.

The SLA publishes a magazine called De Lingva Aragonensi and is currently headed by José Antonio Saura Rami.