Ibero-Romance I: Portuguese and Galician
Ibero-Romance I: Portuguese and Galician
- Inês DuarteInês DuarteUniversidade de Lisboa
Summary
Portuguese and Galician are spoken in the westernmost area of the Iberian Peninsula. They share a common origin, Galician-Portuguese, a language with both innovative and conservative traits with respect to Latin. Historical and political factors caused Galician-Portuguese to split into Galician and Portuguese. The status of Portuguese as a national language led to its early standardization and its path of linguistic change is well documented. Galician and Portuguese share grammatical features differentiating them from other Ibero-Romance languages, in spite of the influence of Spanish in the former and of the presence of innovative grammatical traits in the latter.
Subjects
- Language Families/Areas/Contact