Galician language
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Galician (Galician: Galego) is a language that is spoken in the Spanish province of Galicia, just north of Portugal. It is very similar to Portuguese.
Galician is a Romance language that started on the old part of the Roman Empire called Gallaecia. Today, this same place is the north of Portugal and the Spanish province of Galicia.
Galician took words from many languages, like Arabic, Spanish, and Celtic.
The Galician of today comes from the Galician-Portuguese language. Galician-Portuguese was spoken during the Middle Ages, but is not spoken anymore. It became two different languages: Portuguese and Galician.
Today, Galician is spoken only in Galicia and by some people in South America.
[edit] Is it a real language?
Some people say Galician and Portuguese are the same language, because there are very few differences between them.
People that speak Portuguese and people who speak Galician can understand each other very well.
