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  • WELGR 01: Galego / Fanny + Alexander

    18 jul 2007, 01:21 av tartalo

    This is the first issue of WELGR The Weekly Endangered languages group recommendation. My hope is that it will become better issue after issue with everybody's help.

    THE LANGUAGE: GALEGO

    Galego (Galician in English), is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia

    Galician and Portuguese were, in medieval times, a single language (...)

    The relationship involving Galician and Portuguese can be compared with that between Flemish and Dutch, Macedonian and Bulgarian, Occitan and Catalan, Italian and Corsican, Romanian and Moldovan or English and Lowland Scots. (...)

    The official institution regulating Galician language is Instituto da Lingua Galega (ILG). It claims that modern Galician must be considered an independent Romance language (...)

    There is also an unofficial and minoritary institution Associaçom Galega da Língua (AGAL), according to which differences between Galician and Portuguese languages are not enough to consider them separate languages (...)