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Galician and Castilian are the official languages of the Autonomous Community of Galicia. Galician migration to North America took place mainly between 1868 and 1930, [1] although there was a second smaller wave in the late 1940s and 1950s, when Galicians managed to form a small community in Newark. [2]
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Tamil has 3 forms: Cankatamizh, modelled on Old Tamil, Centamizh, the style used in modern formal contexts today, and Kotuntamizh, the modern colloquial form. These styles form a continuum, so that some writers use Cenkatamizh words while writing in Centamizh. Cenkatamizh and Centamizh are very different from the various dialects of Kotuntamizh.
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 have their historic homeland in Galicia, in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. [9]
According to Encarta Dictionary and Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, "dodo" comes from Portuguese doudo (currently, more often, doido) meaning "fool" or "crazy". The present Portuguese word dodô ("dodo") is of English origin. The Portuguese word doudo or doido may itself be a loanword from Old English (cp. English "dolt") [34] Embarrass
The Galician diaspora is the ethnically Galician population outside of Galicia. The concept does not usually include the ethnic Galicians who live as natives in Spain or the adjacent country of Portugal. Massive emigration of the Galician people occurred during the last three decades of the 19th century until well into the mid-20th century.
Pages in category "American people of Galician descent" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Lexicon of Galicia (Léxico da Galiza) is a contribution from the Galician Academy of the Portuguese Language (Academia Galega da Língua Portuguesa AGLP) of more than 800 words characteristic of Galician to the dictionaries of Portuguese, to be incorporated into the common lexicon of the Orthographic Agreement. It was presented at a joint ...