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The most important author during this period of the language was the scholar Martín Sarmiento, unconditional defender and the first researcher of Galician language (history, evolution, lexicon, etymology, onomastics).
The history of the Galician language can be summarized as seven centuries of normality and five centuries of conflict. From its origins when it separated from the Galician Latin in the 9th century until the introduction of Castilian in the 16th century there was peace, and from the 16th century until the present there were various conflicts.
In Castile, where standard Spanish (Castilian) originated, Galician was the conventional language of the courtly lyric until roughly 1400, but it lost ground in the 15th century, and Castilian replaced Galician as the official language of Galicia in 1500.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Origins and Brief History. The Galician language belongs to the family of the Romanic languages that includes French or Catalan, and it is the result of the evolution of Latin, which was introduced by the Romans in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula.
ORIGINS AND BRIEF HISTORY. The Birth of Galician. The development from Latin to Galician was taken place progressively. So it is impossible to set a precise date after which the spoken language can be considered Galician.
Galician is a Romance language belonging to the Western Ibero-Romance branch; as such, it derives from Latin. It has official status in Galicia. Galician is also spoken in the neighbouring autonomous communities of Asturias and Castile and León, near their borders with Galicia.
The history of the Galician language is not straightforward. It had a bright start as the literary language of the king's court in Galicia, and it had an extensive Medieval...
