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{{Short description|Movement promoting Andalusian Spanish as a distinct language}}
[[File:Eccribe n andaluh.png|thumb|Graffiti in Seville with text in EPA Andalusian. The text says ''Êccribe n'andalûh manque çea por molêttâh'', "Write in Andalusian even if it is only to bother".]]
A [[Social:Social movement|social movement]] aiming to recognize Andalusian Spanish as an independent language separate from [[Social:Spanish language|Spanish]] exists. Prominent advocate groups and organizations include the Society for the Study of Andalusian (ZEA), ''Er Prinçipito Andalûh'' (EPA) and AndaluGeeks.

One of the movement's most impactful initiatives is ''{{ill|Êttandâ pal andalûh|ca|Êttandâ pal andalûh|es|Êttandâ pal andalûh}}'' ("Standard for Andalusian"; EPA), a [[Social:Standard language|standardized]] [[Social:Orthography|orthographic]] system for Andalusian which has been used, among other things, to create Andalusian versions of ''[[Software:Minecraft|Minecraft]]'', [[Software:Telegram|Telegram]] and [[Wikipedia]].

==Background==
Andalusian is a language variety that is classified as a dialect of [[Social:Spanish language|Spanish]].<ref>{{Ethnologue25|spa|Spanish}}</ref> However, in recent times, there have been efforts to promote the dialect of Andalusia as a language of its own, with its own [[Social:Orthography|orthographic]] norms. The [[Social:Right-wing politics|right-wing]] newspaper ''Libertad Digital'' ("Digital Freedom") has accused the movement of only being promoted by the "Andalusian nationalist [[Social:Far-left politics|far-left]]" and its followers.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.libertaddigital.com/andalucia/2021-09-27/la-extrema-izquierda-andaluza-reivindica-el-andaluh-en-el-senado-6822275/|title=La extrema izquierda andaluza reivindica el 'andalûh' en el Senado|newspaper=Libertad Digital|date=27 September 2021|language=es}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:Er Prinzipito.png|thumb|Title page of ''Er Prinzipito'', the Andalusian version of [[Biography:Antoine de Saint-Exupéry|Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]]'s ''The Little Prince'' by Juan Porras]]
Despite having informally started its activities four years earlier, in 2006, the Society for the Study of Andalusian ({{lang|es|Sociedad para el Estudio del Andaluz}}, or ''Zoziedá' pal Ehtudio' el Andalú''; ZEA) was established and drafted its "legal constitution". In a 2008 interview by ''20 minutos'' ("20 minutes"), Guadalupe Vázquez (''Guadalupe Bahkeh''), member of the ZEA, explained that the members of the organization had been striving for years for "conserving our cultural legacy, something which the statute of autonomy recognizes and which we have absolute certainty that exists with an identity of its own, the Andalusian language". She also explained that the ZEA was integrated by [[Social:Anthropology|anthropologists]], linguists and writers who were "people who are very Andalusist culturally" and who "believe that we are being [[Social:Hispanicization|Castilianized]] since many years and that if we do not avoid it, Andalusian will end up disappearing". Juan Porras (''Huan Porrah''), a writer member of the ZEA, was working at the time on a proposal of orthographic norms for Andalusian.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/431877/0/andaluz/castellano/|title="Akí er kahteyano no lo ablamoh malamente, ze abla bien el andalú"|first=Jorge|last=García|newspaper=20 minutos|date=25 November 2008|language=es}}</ref>

In 2017, Porras published his translation of ''The Little Prince'' in Andalusian, being titled ''Er Prinzipito''. It was presented by the Andalusian Workers' Union (SAT) on 9 May of that year. Many users on [[Company:Twitter|Twitter]] mocked the book.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.es/2017/05/09/cachondeo-en-twitter-con-la-edicion-en-andaluz-de-er-prinzipito_a_22077947/|title=Cachondeo en Twitter con la edición en andaluz de "Er Prinzipito"|newspaper=ElHuffPost|date=9 May 2017|language=es}}</ref> As a result of the controversy this book provoked, a [[Company:Facebook|Facebook]] page named after it, ''Er Prinçipito Andalûh'' ({{lang|es|El Principito Andaluz}}, "The Andalusian Prince"; EPA), was created, becoming an online gathering point for several linguists, translators and regular Andalusian speakers. Afterwards, this group worked on the creation of an orthographic system aimed at the [[Social:Standard language|standardization]] of Andalusian, ''{{ill|Êttandâ pal andalûh|ca|Êttandâ pal andalûh|es|Êttandâ pal andalûh}}'' ({{lang|es|Estándar para el andaluz}}, "Standard for Andalusian"; also EPA).<ref name=":0">{{cite news|url=https://www.yorokobu.es/como-se-escribe-en-andaluz-no-se-escribir-en-andaluz/|title=Traductor andaluz: ¿Cómo se escribe en andaluz 'No sé escribir en andaluz'?|first=Mariángeles|last=García|newspaper=Yorokobu|date=8 November 2021|language=es}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite news|url=https://www.lavozdelsur.es/levantaos/andalugeeks-revolucion-digital-en-andaluh-llega-minecraft-wikipedia_255651_102.html|title='Andalugeeks', la revolución digital del 'andalûh' que llega a Minecraft y Wikipedia|first=Sebastián|last=Chilla|newspaper=La Voz del Sur|date=6 February 2021|language=es}}</ref> This later saw the development of a manual transcriber from Spanish to Andalusian, using the EPA system, in 2018.<ref name=":0" /> The EPA gained some traction on the Internet, being used by some users in their [[Social:Social media|social media]] profiles. It also started being used by some artistic and musical groups, such as {{ill|Califato ¾|es}}.<ref name=":1" />

In the summer of 2018, Ksar Feui, a [[Physicist|physicist]] with interests in linguistics, started developing an automatic [[Algorithm|algorithm]] for transcribing Spanish to EPA Andalusian. He has praised the EPA as a "historic milestone", and has declared on a 2021 interview by ''La Voz del Sur'' that when he found out about the EPA, he transcribed all his earlier literary works to this writing system and then asked a friend to download all words of the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) to transcribe them to the EPA for developing this algorithm. Feui was joined by several other friends and collaborators, together with whom he started the project AndaluGeeks<ref name=":1" /> in 2019,<ref name=":2">{{cite news|url=https://www.sevillaactualidad.com/andalucia/207639-pilar-gonzalez-en-el-senado-llegara-el-dia-en-que-se-escriba-en-andaluh/|title=Pilar González en el Senado: "Llegará el día en que se escriba en andalûh"|first=Miguel|last=Salvatierra|newspaper=Sevilla Actualidad|date=24 September 2021|language=es}}</ref> and in February 2019, their algorithm for transcribing Spanish text to EPA Andalusian was published. Afterwards, AndaluGeeks started online courses for learning Andalusian<ref name=":1" /> and involved itself in the creation of an Andalusian keyboard for [[Software:Android (operating system)|Android]] with [[Software:Autocorrection|autocorrection]] and [[Predictive text|predictive text]],<ref name=":2" /> an Andalusian dictionary and Andalusian versions of ''[[Software:Minecraft|Minecraft]]'',<ref name=":1" /> [[Software:Telegram|Telegram]] and [[Wikipedia]], with the latter transcribing all Spanish Wikipedia articles into Andalusian;<ref name=":2" /> all of these following the EPA.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />

In 2021, senator and Adelante Andalucía ("Forward Andalusia") member {{ill|Pilar González (politician)|lt=Pilar González|es|Pilar González (política)}} declared on the Senate of Spain that "Andalusian is our natural language. And it is not inferior to any other language of the State. We speak it without complexes." and that "we have, in addition, Andalusian linguists with proposals for an orthography". She later published the same statements on her Twitter account in EPA Andalusian.<ref name=":2" />

==See also==
* Andalusian nationalism
* [[Social:Language secessionism|Language secessionism]]
* [[Social:Languages of Spain|Languages of Spain]]
* Valencian language

==References==
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==External links==
* {{URL|andaluh.es/en|Official website}} of AndaluGeeks, in English
** {{URL|wiki.andaluh.es|''AndaluWiki''}}, an Andalusian version of the Spanish Wikipedia by AndaluGeeks
** {{URL|andaluh.es/transcriptor|Spanish to Andalusian transcriber}} by AndaluGeeks
* {{Facebook|ErPrincipitoAndaluh|''Er Prinçipito Andalûh''}}
* {{URL|zea-andalu.org|Official website}} of the Society for the Study of Andalusian (''Zoziedá pal Ehtudio'el Andalú'', ZEA)


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