One of the Romance
language, Galician is a twin language with Portuguese. It is
spoken in the north-west corner of Spain.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. Investigation needed: intelligibility with
dialects on the border with Asturian.
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