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Galician

Also known as Galician language

Western Ibero-Romance language

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Galician is a language spoken in the northwestern Spanish region of Galicia that belongs to the Ibero-Romance family of languages. It matters because it represents an important part of the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Galician people and region.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: modern language
Subclass of: Galician–Portuguese
Has part: Fala
Country: Portugal
Image: Nome do galego.png

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linguistic typology: pro-drop language
replaces: Galician–Portuguese
category for music in this language: Category:Galician-language music
language regulatory body: Galician Language Association
writing system: Latin script
Wikimedia language code: gl
Commons category: Galician language
topic's main category: Category:Galician language
native label: galego
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 2400000
category for films in this language: Category:Galician-language films
indigenous to: Galicians
exact match: data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133070824
history of topic: history of the Galician language
short name: галисийский
P10369: lion
P11012: Province of Namur
P13311: Ripalta Guerina

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Galician (/ɡəˈlɪʃ(i)ən/ gə-LISH-(ee-)ən, UK also /ɡəˈlɪsiən/ gə-LISS-ee-ən), 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 Spanish. The language is also spoken in some border zones of the neighbouring Spanish regions of Asturias and Castile and León, as well as by Galician migrant communities in the rest of Spain; in Latin America, including Argentina and Uruguay; and in Puerto Rico, the United States, Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Galician” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.