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date: 11 February 2025

Ibero-Romance I: Portuguese and Galicianlocked

Ibero-Romance I: Portuguese and Galicianlocked

  • 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.

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  • Language Families/Areas/Contact

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