The preservation conditions of these traits are blurry and not easily perceptible in common speech. Perhaps the most perceptible traits are the deaf velar fricative aspiration and the implosive /s/. These are the most characteristic and contrast with the rest of the province of Salamanca's speech. People still retain some words dating from the Middle Ages from Mozarab and Basque origin. Due to the dialect's southern traits, it is considered to belong to the Extremaduran dialects stemming from the old Leonese language.
