Ana Cano

Spanish philologist

Ana María Cano González (Villarín, Somiedo, Asturias, 12 May 1950) is a Spanish philologist. She was dean of the faculty of Philology of the University of Oviedo and chair of romance philology. She received her master's degree in primary education in 1967, after exerting this profession, a license in philosophy and letters from the University of Oviedo in 1972, and a doctorate at the same institution in 1975, cum laude, with a thesis on "The speech of Somiedo". Since 2001, she has been president of the Academy of the Asturian Language.^[1]

Selected works

El habla de Somiedo (1975)
Vocabulario del bable de Somiedo (1982)
Averamientu a la hestoria de la llingua asturiana (1987)
Notas de Folklor Somedán (1989)
Estudios de diacronía asturiana (2008)
El habla de Somiedo (occidente de Asturias) (2009)

References

^ Cascudo, T. (5 May 2016). "Ana Cano: "La oficialidad es la única oportunidad de que el gallego-asturiano sobreviva"" (in Spanish). La Nueva España. Retrieved 10 July 2016.