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Italic Languages
Latino-Faliscan	Faliscan
	Latin	Italo-Dalmatian	Corsican, Dalmatian, Istriot, Italian, Neapolitan, Sicilian
		Eastern Romance	Moldovan, Romanian
		Southern Romance	Sardian,
		Western Romance	Pyrenean-Mozarabic	Aragonese, Mozarabic
			Gallo-Iberian	Langues d'oïl	French
				Occitano-Romance
				Gallo-Italian
			Ibero-Romance	West Iberian	Galician, Leonese, Spanish, Portuguese
				East Iberian	Catalan
			Rhaeto-Romance	Friulian, Ladin, Romansh
			Oscan	Sabine, South Picene, Oscan
			Umbrian	Aequian, Marsian, Umbrian, Volscian
Vestinian	Vestinian

Welcome to the Wikilang introduction page for the Galician language, or as we call it, galego!

Contents 1 An Introduction to the Language 1.1 History 1.2 Family 1.3 Spoken in

An Introduction to the Language

Galician is a Romance language spoken in Galicia, northwestern Spain, by more than 3 million people and by nearly 500,000 emigrants in Latin America and the rest of Europe. It has a high degree of mutual intelligibility with Portuguese and Galicians and Portuguese people understand themselves perfectly. However, due to various factors (mostly political), the Galician language status is controversial. Some people consider it a dialect of Portuguese, others state it is a separate language.

History

The Galician language and the Portuguese language were once the same, called Galician-Portuguese. They began to separate in the 14th century, with Galician suffering some influences from Spanish and developing into the modern day language. Nowadays its status as an independent language or a dialect of Portuguese divides the Galicians. While the Real Academia Galega who regulates the language considers it as a separate language, there are also Reintegracionist groups trying to reunite the two languages, such as the Associaçom Galega da Língua.

Family

Indo-European

• Italic
  • Romance
    • Italo-Western
      • Western
        • Gallo-Iberian
          • Ibero-Romance
            • West-Iberian
              • Galician-Portuguese
                • Galician

Spoken in

Galician is the official language of Galicia and is also a recognized minority language of Spain. It has also been accepted orally as Portuguese by the European Union parliament, being used for the first time by José Posada in 1993.