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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.
The Romans arrived in Galicia in the second century BCE, although their conquest was not consolidated until the first century B.C.E., the process of "Romanization" began, which led to the incorporation of indigenous people to the language and the culture of the Roman conquerors. Latin became the language of the area, its assimilation was not an ...
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 has its historic homeland in Galicia, in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. [ 9]
The path to politics. Gallego, 44, was raised in the suburbs of Chicago by a single mother after his father split while the future congressman was in sixth grade. Gallego, whose parents are ...
02:17. PHOENIX — TV advertising showing candidates touring the U.S.-Mexico border has become a staple of Republican political campaigns around the country. But this summer, Democratic Rep. Ruben ...
Ruben Gallego. Rubén Marinelarena Gallego ( / ˈruːbən ɡaɪˈɛɡoʊ / ROO-bən gy-EH-goh; born November 20, 1979) is an American politician and former U.S. Marine serving as the U.S. representative for Arizona's 3rd congressional district. Gallego served and deployed as a USMCR Corporal in the US invasion of Iraq.
The English word includes various meanings that some other languages distinguish using several words. [11] In ancient Greek, for example, four important terms for knowledge were used: epistēmē (unchanging theoretical knowledge), technē (expert technical knowledge), mētis (strategic knowledge), and gnōsis (personal intellectual knowledge). [12]
Galician-language literature is the literature written in Galician.The earliest works in Galician language are from the early 13th-century trovadorismo tradition. In the Middle Ages, Galego-português (Galician-Portuguese) was a language of culture, poetry (troubadours) and religion throughout not only Galicia and Portugal but also in the Castile-León region.