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Galician language

NameGalician
NativenameGalego
Pronunciation[ɡaˈleɡo]
RegionGalicia; also in other parts of Spain and Portugal
Speakers3 � 4 million (500,000 emigrants throughout Ibero-America and Europe)
FamilycolorIndo-European
Fam2Italic
Fam3Romance
Fam4Italo-Western
Fam5Western
Fam6Gallo-Iberian
Fam7Ibero-Romance
Fam8West-Iberian
Fam9Galician-Portuguese
ScriptLatin alphabet (Galician variant)
NationGalicia, Spain; accepted orally as Portuguese by the European Union Parliament.
AgencyRoyal Galician Academy
Iso1gl
Iso2glg
Iso3glg
Lingua51-AAA-ab
NoticeIPA

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Galician ( , -glɡaˈleɡoIPA) is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, as well as in border zones of the neighbouring territories of Asturias, Castile and León and northern Portugal.

Modern Galician and modern Portuguese are descended from a single Latin-derived language which linguists today call Galician-Portuguese or Mediaeval Galician or Old Portuguese. This common ancestral language was spoken in the territories of the mediaeval Kingdom of Galicia. Modern Portuguese and Galician still do not have a clear-cut geographical separation, as they are part of a dialect continuum.


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