28/08/2017 · Spain has many different languages, not only Castilian – Basque, Catalan and Galician are also official languages. Galician is spoken in the autonomous region of Galicia in the northwest corner of Spain. Characterised by its wild coastlines, green hilly landscapes and maritime heritage, it’s a unique area of the country, even sharing some of its roots with the Celts.

09/09/2019 · Languages of Spain: Galician. Galician (galego) is an Indo-European language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch. It is spoken by around 2.4 million people (as censed in 2012) mainly in Galicia, an Spanish autonomous community located in the north west of Spain.

A poster to promote the Galician language. (Text: ‘More then ever, we want Galego’) Official language. Galego is an official language and not accent. In 1978 the language is acknowledged and appointed as one of the five official regional languages of Spain. Those five languages are called ‘las lenguas españoles’, the Spanish languages.

03/12/2020 · Galician: A minority language in Spain. Galicia is a region in the northwest of Spain. This is a bilingual area where Spanish and Galician are both spoken and used in education, or by regional public organisations. The population is bilingual: some predominantly Spanish speakers, others predominantly Galician speakers.

Galician is spoken by some four million people as a home language, mostly in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain—where almost 90 percent of the population spoke Galician at the turn of the 21st century—but also in adjacent regions of Portugal (notably Trás-os-Montes).

14/06/2017 · Many areas in Spain have their own language. In Catalonia they speak Catalan, while in the Basque Country, they speak Basque. In Galicia they speak Gallego. It is an official language here, along with Spanish, and is spoken by around 2.4 million people. A Romanesque language, it has a lot in common with both Spanish and Portuguese.