Galician
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- noun
- /ɡəˈlɪʃən/
- Although many Galicians anxiously await its completion, local opposition to the CdC has ranged from verbal discontent to attempted arson.
Examples
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Because he was a Galician, a Celt after all, he had developed into a machine for improvisation.
Fiction book (1991) -
You know how they looked at the Galicians...
Fiction book (1996) -
Not all Galicians, however, shared this vision.
Academic text (2012) -
His situation more closely resembles that of Francisco Franco in Spain after World War II, and not simply because of their common Galician.
Academic text (1996) -
While the occurrence of feminine gender is 43.8% in Castilian, in Portuguese it is 60%, in Galician 64%, and in Catalan 50%.
Academic text (1997) -
48.3% of the Hispano-Romance items are plural in form, 64% in Portuguese, 57% in Galician, and 59% in Catalan.
Academic text (1997) -
Although many Galicians, particularly within the BNG party, had strongly criticized the CdC project, signed contracts between the previous government and several construction companies strongly compromised the new government's ability to abandon it.
Academic text (2012) -
Thus, even though President Fraga presented the costly CdC project as a facility for and representative of all Galicians, he did so in a political climate in which the project was increasingly interpreted as a physical manifestation of the PP's control of the region or as using regional funds for a personal project.
Academic text (2012) -
But here we find that the nasal quality of the intervocalic -n-, which had lost its independent consonantal status, spread onto the following vowel, a development typical of Galician (Maia 575-76, 751 fn. 2).
Academic text (1996) -
The Galician language is rich in culture and history, reflecting the traditions of its speakers.
Synonyms
A language like Spanish spoken in Galicia in northwest Spain
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Galician names the language spoken in the region of Galicia in northwest Spain. It comes from Latin Gallaecia, meaning 'land of the Gallaeci', an old local people, so Galician literally means 'from Galicia' and refers to that language.