started to decline. Even though it had been used by the government and administration for many years, it rapidly became a language that was used informally and looked down upon.

This situation of diglossia meant the beginning of a period (that still lasts) of a strong Spanish influence. Many Spanish loanwords entered Aragonese and its evolution from that moment on was tied to Spanish. Some grammatical features documented in medieval Aragonese were lost, such as the usage of the Latin ending -UTUM for the creation