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The history of the Galician language can be summarized as seven centuries of normality and five centuries of conflict. From its origins when it separated from the Galician Latin in the 9th century until the introduction of Castilian in the 16th century there was peace, and from the 16th century until the present there were various conflicts.
Galician (/ ɡ ə ˈ l ɪ ʃ ən / gə-LEE-shən, [3] / ɡ ə ˈ l ɪ s i ə n / gə-LISS-ee-ən; [4] endonym: galego), also known as 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 Spanish.
Galician–Portuguese (lingua vulgar; Galician: galego–portugués or galaico–portugués; Portuguese: galego–português or galaico–português), also known as Old Galician–Portuguese, Old Galician or Old Portuguese, Medieval Galician or Medieval Portuguese when referring to the history of each modern language, was a West Iberian Romance language spoken in the Middle Ages, in the ...
The first game of the Galician national football team took place on 19 November 1922 in Coia, Vigo, beating the Centro team (which encompassed Madrid and the wider Castile region) 4–1 in the quarter-finals of the 1922–23 Copa del Príncipe de Asturias, an official inter-regional tournament organized by RFEF;– This was at a time when there was no national club championship per se ...
Lexicon of Galiza. 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 ...
This is a list of Galician words of Celtic origin, many of them being shared with Portuguese (sometimes with minor differences) since both languages are from medieval Galician-Portuguese. A few of these words existed in Latin as loanwords from a Celtic source, usually Gaulish , while others have been later received from other languages, mainly ...
Reintegrationism (reintegracionismo, Galician: [rejnteɣɾaθjoˈnizmʊ,-asjo-], European Portuguese: [ʁɛ.ĩtɨɣɾɐsjuˈniʒmu]), or Lusism, is a linguistic movement in Galicia that advocates for the recognition of Galician and varieties of the Portuguese language as a single language.
The Galician Wikipedia (Galician: Wikipedia en lingua galega ), also popularly known as Galipedia (Galician: Galipedia ), [ 1] is the Galician-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia . Launched on 8 March 2003, [ 2] it has 212,816 articles, making it the fifty-third-largest edition of Wikipedia by number ...