Galician language

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The Galician language is a Romance language spoken primarily in the Galicia region of northwestern Spain, historically and linguistically very close to Portuguese.

All labels observed (8)

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Romance language
West Iberian language
language
closelyRelatedTo Portuguese language
coOfficialWith Spanish language
developedFrom Galician language self-linksurface differs
surface form: Galician-Portuguese language
hasAlternativeName Galego
hasDialect Galician language self-linksurface differs
surface form: Central Galician

Galician language self-linksurface differs
surface form: Eastern Galician

Western Galician
hasGrammaticalGender feminine
masculine
hasHistoricalPeriod Medieval Galician-Portuguese
hasNativeName galego
hasNeighbourLanguage Asturian language
Peninsular Spanish
surface form: Castilian Spanish

Portuguese language
hasNumberCategory plural
singular
hasPhonologicalFeature nasal vowels reduced compared to Portuguese
hasStandardizationPeriod 20th century
hasStandardVariety Galician language self-linksurface differs
surface form: Standard Galician
hasWordOrder SVO
historicallyFormedWith Portuguese language
isMinorityLanguageIn Spain
ISO639-1Code gl
ISO639-2Code glg
ISO639-3Code glg
isTaughtIn schools in Galicia
languageFamily Indo-European languages
Romance languages
officialStatusIn Galicia
primaryCountry Spain
region Galicia
regulatedBy Royal Galician Academy
sharesLiteraryTraditionWith Portuguese language
spokenIn Galicia
Spain
northwestern Spain
subfamily Ibero-Romance languages
usedIn Government of Catalonia
surface form: Galician autonomous government

Galician media
usesDefiniteArticle a
as
o
os
writingSystem Latin script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mondoñedo languageUsed Galician language
this entity surface form: Galician
Camino de Santiago hasLanguage Galician language
this entity surface form: Galician
Branquiazuis language Galician language
this entity surface form: Galician
Rocha hasLanguageOfUse Galician language
this entity surface form: Galician
Miño languageOfName Galician language
this entity surface form: Galician
Trastámara region hasLanguage Galician language
River Plate Spanish influencedBy Galician language
Ponteareas hasOfficialLanguage Galician language
this entity surface form: Galician
Marcos hasLanguageUsage Galician language
this entity surface form: Galician
CiTIUS (Singular Center for Research in Intelligent Technologies) languageOfWork Galician language
subject surface form: CiTIUS
this entity surface form: Galician
Inés languageOfUse Galician language
this entity surface form: Galician
Common Voice hasLanguageCoverage Galician language
this entity surface form: Galician
Latn isUsedForWriting Galician language
this entity surface form: Galician