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The following pages will present all sorts of information and didactic papers concerning the Galician language. In the end there will be (at least let's hope so!) interesting things for everybody, for experts as well as for beginners. But for the moment, patience is necessary because such an offer can only be developed very progressively. By the way, everybody can contribute to the development of these pages either by questions, desires, or critiques, or by writing documents, texts, terminologic data, etc. Just tell us!
Speaking of Galicia or Galician on this page or its subpages, we always mean the nowadays Northwestern Spanish province called like this and the language they speak there. This should not be mixed up with the eastern European Galicia that is now divided between Poland and Ukraine but formerly was entirely Polish, then Austrian.
The average tourist loves Spain but will almost always go to the sunburnt Mediterranean coast of Spain whereas most tourists do not know the "green" part of Spain, which consists in its rain-laden northwest provinces, which yet present very special charms. Even less known is the fact that Galicia, i.e. the territories that are situated at the northwest edge of Spain, formerly belonged to Portugal and is still inhabited by a local population whose native language is not Spanish but Galician. The following pages are dedicated to this time-honored language.
Please take account of our ideas as for collaboration (which will possibly have to be rediscussed for every new project).
All rights as well as the responsibility for the contents are reserved for the authors, unless different indication.
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Holidays at the end of the Way of St. James? Excellent idea! But where to stay? |
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Whether you are looking for a room, an apartment, a hotel, a guest house,
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Internet
Be aware of our legal reservation concerning any Internet reference.
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Official site of the regional government (Xunta) of Galicia (Spanish and Galician language, some governmental announcings per video only Spanish language). All Galician texts published here are naturally written in isolationist spelling (for more details see Galician or Portugese?). |
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Ensino en galego (Lessons in Galician Language) |
„Taboleiro de anuncios sobre o ensino en lingua galega. Nel irei presentando software e utilidades que faciliten o achegamento das novas tecnoloxías ao eido educativo." Many links to Blogs and Websites related to lessons in Galician language. Mainly in Galician and Spanish. |
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Normas ortográficas y morfológicas del idioma gallego (Orthographic and morphological standards of the Galician language) |
„Por normativa del idioma gallego se entiende el conjunto de normas ortográficas y morfológicas que componen el idioma gallego. Fueron aprobadas el 12 de julio del 2003 por la Real Academia Gallega y todavía están en vigor." Official specifications concerning the spelling and the structure of the Galician language. Detailed official presentation of the history of the the linguistical standardization of the Galician language. Spanish language. |
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In the English Wikipedia. |
Detailed encyclopaedic article on the Galician language and its history. |
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Lengua gallega (or Idioma gallego or Gallego). In the Spanish Wikipedia. |
Detailed encyclopaedic article on the Galician language, its geographic area, and its history. With many links (mostly in Spanish). |
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Portal of the Real Academia Galega (Galician, English and Spanish language), with mit extensive archives, libraries (with many digitized works in the virtual library), and dictionaries (somewhat hidden under Recursos lingüísticos). |
Bibliography
Using the following links you can have a look at the offers of amazon. Arriving at the bookseller's site, you can use its search field to find expressions, titles, authors, or ISBN / ASIN numbers. You will never be obliged to buy anything.
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Historia de Galicia: Desastre del Prestige, Tarraconense, Monforte de Lemos, Historia de La Lengua Gallega, Gallegos, Fern N Ruiz de Castro |
Printed edition of the corresponding Wikipedia article, with a chapter on the Galician language (Spanish Edition). |
amazon.ca, amazon.co.uk, amazon.de/at, amazon.es, amazon.fr, amazon.it. |
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Idioma gallego: Eonaviego, Historia de la lengua gallega, Normativa reintegracionista del idioma gallego |
Printed edition of the corresponding Wikipedia article (Spanish Edition). |
amazon.ca, amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.de/at, amazon.es, amazon.fr. |
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Ramón Mariño Paz, Historia de la Lengua Gallega |
A very volumous and regrettably expensive book published in 2008, in official, i.e. "isolationist" Galician spelling. |
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O principiño - Der kleine Prinz in Galizisch / Gallego |
Translation of Saint-Exupéry's Le petit prince (The Little Prince) in Galician language. Such a short translated text offers an easy introduction to the language. As shown by the title, this small book is written in isolationist spelling. |
Hans-Rudolf Hower, 2012
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