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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
During the Franco era, the teaching of Galician was prohibited. Today older people may speak the language but have no written competence because of those years. [91] Among the regional languages of Spain, Galician has the highest percentage of speakers in its population. However, the acts of Popular Party in the Autonomous Community in the last ...
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 ...
In a victory for millions of Spaniards who speak a language other than Spanish, the European nation's Parliament allowed its national legislators to use Catalan, Basque and Galician for the first ...
A comparative map of Galicia showing speakers of Galician as first language in 2001 and 2011, Galician Institute of Statistics. La Romería (the pilgrimage), Sorolla, 1915. Galician is a Romance language belonging to the Western Ibero-Romance branch; as such, it derives from Latin. It has official status in Galicia.
In total, Galician is the language spoken at home by approximately 1,302,000 people. Another 563,000 speak Galician interchangeably with Spanish. Unlike in Catalonia, the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands, in Galicia the main cause of the advance of Spanish over the local language (Galician) is not immigration, but language shift.
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]
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 ...