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flag-galego.png | 1.1 | 7 years | 1.44 KB | akamu | Population : 3,173,400 in Spain, 8.2% of the population (1986). Population total both countries 4,000,000 (1999 WA). Region Northwest Spain, Autonomous Region of Galicia. Also spoken in Portugal. Alternate names GALEGO, GALLEGO Classification Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Portuguese-Galician. Comments Galician is between Portuguese and Spanish, but closer to Portuguese. Portuguese has about 85% intelligibility to speakers of Galician (R.A. Hall, Jr., 1989). Many dialects. Bilingualism in Spanish. There is an Academy of the Galician Language. It has had many decades of development as a language of serious literature, including poetry, essays on novel, ideological, philosophical, and sociological topics, and for all levels of education, including higher education. A growing sense of ethnic identity and of the Galician language. intelligibility with dialects on the border with Asturian. | ||
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Language notes have been compilied by Akamu from ethnologue.com