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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Galician_languageGalician language - Wikipedia

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   Galician ( / ɡəˈlɪʃən /, [4] / ɡəˈlɪsiən /; [5] 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.

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2. simple.wikipedia.org › wiki › Galician_languageGalician language - Simple English Wikipedia, the free ...

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   Galician is a Romance language that evolved from Vulgar Latin, the Latin of common people in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The area is now Galicia, the western parts of Asturias and Castile-Leon and the Norte region in northern Portugal . Galician took most of its words from Latin, many from Judeo ...

   • Ethnicity: Galician
   • Pronunciation: [ɡaˈleɣʊ]

   • Native speakers: 2.4 million (2012), 58% of the population of Galicia (c. 1.56 million) are L1 speakers (2007)

3. www.wikiwand.com › en › Galician_languageGalician language - Wikiwand

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   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. The language is also spoken in some border zones of the neighbouring Spanish regions of Asturias and Castile and León ...

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5. www.britannica.com › topic › Galician-languageGalician language | Galician Dialects, Romance Languages ...

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   Mar 12, 2024 · Portuguese language, Romance language that is spoken in Portugal, Brazil, and other Portuguese colonial and formerly colonial territories. Galician, spoken in northwestern Spain, is closely related to Portuguese. Portuguese owes its importance—as the second Romance language (after Spanish) in terms of numbers of speakers—largely to its ...

6. www.omniglot.com › writing › galicianGalician language, alphabet and pronunciation - Omniglot

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   Galician (Galego) Galician is a Romance language spoken by about 2.4 million people (in 2012) mainly in Galicia, in the north-west corner of Spain. It is also spoken in neighbouring areas of Asturias and Castile and León. Galician is more or less mutually intelligible with Portuguese but uses Spanish spelling conventions.

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   Is Galician a Spanish language?

   • 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.

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   What languages are spoken in Galicia?

   • The lexicon of Galician is predominantly of Latin extraction, although it also contains a moderate number of words of Germanic and Celtic origin, among other substrates and adstrates, having also received, mainly via Spanish, a number of nouns from Andalusian Arabic. The language is officially regulated in Galicia by the Royal Galician Academy.

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   How did Galician-Portuguese differ from other languages?

   • Galician-Portuguese diverged into two linguistic varieties – Galician and Portuguese – from the 15th century on. Galician became a regional spoken language under the influence of Castilian Spanish, while Portuguese became the international one, as language of the Portuguese Empire.

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   When did Galician become a language?

   • From the 16th to the 18th century, Galician was used only as a home language (i.e., as a means of communication within the family). Toward the end of the 18th century, it was revived as a language of culture. In the 21st century, with Spanish, it is an official language of the comunidad autónoma (“autonomous community”) of Galicia.

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