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Galician (/ ɡ ə ˈ l ɪ ʃ (i) ə n / gə-LISH-(ee-)ən, [3] UK also / ɡ ə ˈ l ɪ s i ə n / gə-LISS-ee-ən), [4] also known as Galego (endonym: 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 Sp
Galician became a regional spoken language under the influence of Castilian Spanish, while Portuguese became the international one, as language of the Portuguese Empire. The two varieties are still close together, and in particular northern Portuguese dialects share an important number of similarities with Galician ones.
Galician ranks in the lower orders of the 150 most widely spoken languages on earth. [45] For more than four centuries of Castilian domination, Spanish was the only official language in Galicia. Galician faded from day-to-day use in urban areas.
The Polish language was the most spoken language in Galicia as a whole, although the eastern part of the region was predominantly Ruthenian-speaking. According to the 1910 census, 58.6% of Galicia spoke Polish as its mother tongue, compared to 40.2% who spoke a Ruthenian language. [32]
As in other autonomous communities, Spanish is the language that is spoken most in urban areas of Galicia, while Galician is spoken in rural areas. In total, Galician is the language spoken at home by approximately 1,302,000 people. Another 563,000 speak Galician interchangeably with Spanish.
Map of Galicia irredenta.In grey is Galicia proper and in yellow are the places in Spain where Galician is spoken outside of it.. Galicia irredenta [1] ("Unredeemed Galicia") or Galicia estremeira [2] ("Outer" or "External Galicia"), also spelled as Galiza irredenta [3] and Galiza estremeira [4] and also known as Faixa Leste [5] or Franxa Leste [6] ("Eastern Strip"), is a term used for all ...
The majority of languages of Spain [4] belong to the Romance language family, of which Spanish is the only one with official status in the whole country. [5] [6] Others, including Catalan/Valencian (in Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands) and Galician (in Galicia), enjoy official status in their respective autonomous regions, similar to Basque in the northeast of the country (a non ...
Galician, co-official in Galicia and also spoken in adjacent western parts of Asturias and Castile and León. Closely related to Portuguese, with Spanish influence. [20] It shares the same origin as Portuguese, from the medieval Galician-Portuguese. Modern Galician is spoken by around 3.2 million people and is ranked 160th by number of speakers ...