asturianizar

A technical linguistics term meaning to adapt a word, text, or speaker's Spanish to Asturian — following the phonological and grammatical patterns of the Asturian language (bable), such as restoring the initial /f/ that Castilian lost (Castilian huracán becomes Asturian furacán). It's used almost exclusively by linguists and language-revival advocates discussing contact between Spanish and Asturian, not in general conversation.

• El grupo busca asturianizar la señalización de varios pueblos. — The group is working to render several towns' signage in Asturian.
• Al asturianizar el texto, recuperaron la f- inicial de varias palabras. — In rendering the text into Asturian, they restored the initial f- of several words.
• Algunos castellanismos se asturianizan con el tiempo entre hablantes rurales. — Some Castilian loanwords get Asturianized over time among rural speakers.

Confusing asturianizar (adapting something into Asturian) with castellanizar (the opposite process, adapting Asturian toward Castilian) — the two go in opposite directions and both come up in the same linguistic literature on Asturian-Spanish contact.

Often confused with castellanizar.