Galician language

Galician language
Galician  Galego  or  Gallego 

      Romance language (Romance languages) with many similarities to the Portuguese language. It is spoken by some 4 million people, 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).

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