Galician /ɡəˈlɪʃən/ (galego IPA: [ɡaˈleɣo]) is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is co-official with Castilian, as well as in border zones of the neighbouring territories of Asturias and Castile and León.
Modern Galician and its southern sibling, Portuguese, originated from a common mediaeval ancestor called variously by modern linguists as Galician-P...
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Galician /ɡəˈlɪʃən/ (galego IPA: [ɡaˈleɣo]) is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is co-official with Castilian, as well as in border zones of the neighbouring territories of Asturias and Castile and León.
Modern Galician and its southern sibling, Portuguese, originated from a common mediaeval ancestor called variously by modern linguists as Galician-Portuguese or Mediaeval Galician or Old Galician or Old Portuguese. This common ancestral stage developed in the territories of the old Kingdom of Galicia, which covered the territories of modern day Galicia and northern Portugal. In the 13th century it became a written and cultivated language. In the past Galician and Portuguese formed a dialect continuum. For many scholars this continuum still exists today at the level of rural dialects. Others point out that modern Galician and Portuguese have diverged notably during the past seven centuries...
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