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Galician ( / ɡəˈlɪʃən /, [3] / ɡəˈlɪsiən /; [4] endonym: galego ), also known as Galego, is a Western Ibero-Romance language. Around 2.4 million people have at least some degree of competence in the language, mainly in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it has official status along with Spanish.
Galician literature. Galician language, Romance language with many similarities to the Portuguese language, of which it was historically a dialect. It is now much influenced by standard Castilian Spanish. Galician is spoken by some four million people as a home language, mostly in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain—where almost 90 ...
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Galicians ( Galician: galegos [ɡaˈleɣʊs]; Spanish: gallegos [ɡaˈʎeɣos]) are a Romance-speaking European ethnic group [7] from northwestern Spain; they are closely related to the northern Portuguese people [8] and has its historic homeland in Galicia, in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. [9]
Galician–Portuguese (lingua vulgar; Galician: galego–portugués or galaico–portugués; Portuguese: galego–português or galaico–português), also known as Old Galician–Portuguese, Old Galician or Old Portuguese, Medieval Galician or Medieval Portuguese when referring to the history of each modern language, was a West Iberian Romance language spoken in the Middle Ages, in the ...
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The current Galician alphabet was introduced by the Royal Galician Academy in 1982. It became the official orthography in 1983.
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1. a, e and o are pronounced [ɐ], [ɛ], [ɔ] respectively in unstressed final words and prefixes 2. á is pronounced long just in the contraction á (a+a/to the). 3. c = [θ] ([s] in some dialects) before e or i, [k] elsewhere 4. e and o are pronounced [ɛ] and [ɔ] respectively in some stressed syllables. 5. ï is used as hiatus, e.g. saïamos [saˈi.amʊs] (we went out), saiamos[saˈjamʊs] (let's go out). 6. g is pronounced [ħ~ʕ] or [h~ɦ] in some dialects. 7. gu= [g] before e or i, [gw] before a, o or...
Tódolos seres humanos nacen libres e iguais en dignidade e dereitos e, dotados como están de razón e conciencia, díbense comportar fraternalmente uns cos outros. A recording of this text by Omar Carrillo
Information about the Galician Language http://galego.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galician_language https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galicien http://usuarios.lycos.es/Celtic_Galiza/galegoh.html Online Galician lessons http://gl.wikibooks.org/wiki/Curso_de_lingua_galega http://polymath.org/galician.php http://www.youtube.com/user/SpeakingGalician...
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Aug 28, 2017 · Galician is spoken by around 2.5 million people around the world. It is mainly spoken in the Galicia region of Spain, but there are also many immigrants using it in places such as Argentina, Uruguay, Germany and Switzerland. Around 88% of the population of Galicia speak Galician on a day-to-day basis and over 90% understand it, even if they are ...
Oct 13, 2023 · Both Galician and Portuguese trace their roots back to the Roman occupation of the Iberian Peninsula. As Latin permeated the local languages, the ancient “Gallaecian-Lusitanian” dialect emerged as a precursor to both Galician and Portuguese. Over time, political boundaries and social shifts began to shape these languages in distinct ways.
