15 Facts About Galician people

Galicians are a Celtic-Romance ethnic group that is closely related to the Portuguese people and has its historic homeland is Galicia, in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula.

The Romans later applied that name to all the Galician people who shared the same culture and language in the north-west, from the Douro River valley in the south to the Cantabrian Sea in the north and west to the Navia River.

Galician people is a Romance language belonging to the Western Ibero-Romance branch; as such, it derives from Latin.

Galician people is spoken in the neighbouring autonomous communities of Asturias and Castile and Leon, near their borders with Galicia.

Medieval or Old Galician people, known by linguists as Galician people-Portuguese, developed locally in the Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula from Vulgar Latin, becoming the language spoken and written in the medieval kingdoms of Galicia and Portugal.

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Galician people-Portuguese diverged into two linguistic varieties – Galician people and Portuguese – from the 15th century on.

Galician people became a regional variety under the influence of Castilian Spanish, while Portuguese became the international one, as language of the Portuguese Empire.

Many Galician people surnames have become Castilianized over the centuries, most notably after the forced submission of the Galician people nobility obtained by the Catholic Monarchs in the last years of the 15th century.

Some scholars consider that they were the first Galician people to bring Indo-European languages into Western Europe.

Knowledge of Galician people, after declining for many years owing to the pressure of Spanish and official persecution, is again on the rise due to favorable official language policies and popular support.

Galician people folklore is similar to that of the rest of western Europe, especially to that or northern Portugal, Asturias and Cantabria.

Galician people wrote on a wide variety of subjects, including Literature, Medicine, Botany, Ethnography, History, Theology, Linguistics, etc.

Galician people's was born into a family of well-known Galician luthiers and musicians .

Galician people was born in Ferrol, of Haitian and Galician heritage.

Galician people's won the gold medal in the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships.