Recent Press Appearance: RTVE.ES (February 4, 2026: in Spanish).

RTVE.ES (February 4, 2026: in Spanish). El aragonés, una lengua “que agoniza” en manos de voluntarios y activistas digitales. [Press release, extract]. Retrieved from https://www.rtve.es/noticias/20260204/aragones-lengua-agoniza-manos-voluntarios-activistas-digitales/16921925.shtml

Internet activism so that Aragonese “does not become a museum language”

Marco is from Zaragoza and holds a notable distinction: in 2006 he created Estricalla, the first blog in the Aragonese language in internet history. “It is the oldest blog in Aragonese. It is a personal project and I feel more comfortable writing in this language,” he tells RTVE Noticias. It currently has 536 posts.

In that blog, Marco mainly writes about travel. He has lived four years in Philippines, two in Brazil and one year in Vietnam, among other places. “Regarding the Philippines, I have received visits from people who do not speak Aragonese. They used it as a reference because I provided specific information about places that had not yet been published in Spanish,” he tells us proudly. In the best periods of the ‘blogosphere,’ he says, he has received between 300 and 400 visits per post; nowadays the average is about 100.

For him, the internet is very important so that “there is content in Aragonese in all spheres of life, especially on the internet.” At the same time, he is very critical of its preservation: “It cannot be relegated to a museum language and to village festivals once a year.”

He also believes that much greater political and institutional support is necessary, especially at a time when the associative movement “is very demobilized and in a very bad situation.”

Only three blogs in the Aragonese language remain active, although there used to be 20, according to Marco. “It is not that the content has disappeared, but that new creators have opted for social networks,” he says.