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Modern Galician is classified as part of the West Iberian languages group, a family of Romance languages. Galician evolved locally from Vulgar Latin and developed from what modern scholars have called Galician-Portuguese. The earliest document written integrally in the local Galician variety dates back to 1230, although the subjacent Romance ...
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,
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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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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.
Aug 28, 2017 · Galician is a Romance language, meaning that it shares its roots with other languages in the area such as Spanish, Catalan, French and Italian. Map showing countries with Romance languages in Europe | ©5millionaccountswow / Wikimedia Commons. The language was invented around the 9th century.
Galician, 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.
Galego, as it is known in Galician, is an Indo-European language belonging to the Romance branch of languages. As the native language of Galicia, it is spoken by 2.7 million inhabitants in...
