That’s 70% of the inhabitants of Galicia. The language is familiar to Portugese and many people experience the language as a mixture between Spanish and Portugese. Nevertheless, the Galician language originates back to the Middle Ages. Nowadays it’s …

Historically, Gallego had its origins in the 12th century, when it appears to be almost identical to Portuguese, but since then it has diversified and taken on a distinctive feel, enabling it to be classified as a unique tongue in its own right.

The romanization process was slow and a new language was born with the mixture of autochthonous languages and Latin: Galician language. The arrival of another nations as Suevians which created the first kingdom of Europe in Galicia and new Celtic waves coming from Brittany also influenced this evolution. The presence of Arabs in the

Until the 15th century, Portuguese and Galician formed one single linguistic unit, Gallego-Portuguese. The first evidence for the language consists of scattered words in 9th–12th-century Latin texts; continuous documents date from approximately 1192, the date assigned to an extant property agreement between the children of a well-to-do family from the Minho River valley.

26/10/2014 · One ancestral language, spoken at least 15,000 years ago, gave rise to seven more that formed an ancient Eurasiatic “superfamily”. These in turn split into languages now spoken all over Eurasia, from Portugal to Siberia.