Galician

Want to practice your Galician? Meetup with others in your area who are also interested in the Galician language. All ages and levels of proficiency are welcome!

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Galicia has over 2,800,000 inhabitants. The Galician-speaking territory is delimited by the Autonomous Community of Galicia and the farthest western area of Asturias, León and Zamora, as well as three small areas in Extremadura. The distribution of Galician is geographically homogeneous, there being no territorial areas where its use is not verified.
Apart from this, and due to the historical circumstances of the Galician emigration around the world, there are some regions with a large concentration of people of Galician origin. This population preserved its language as communication vehicle -not only in the private field but also in the public field- through periodicals, literary publications or even in the radio in host countries. There are still large Galician-speaking communities in cities such as Barcelona, Zurich, Montevideo or Buenos Aires.




LEGAL STATUS

Galicia is -by constitutional recognition- an autonomous community with its own institutions: its Parliament, its own government, security corps, its own public media, flag, etc.
The Statute of Autonomy of Galicia -passed in 1981- recognized Galician as the own language of Galicia and the coofficial language of the Community, which “everyone has the right to know and use”, and at the same time made the authorities responsible for the normalization of Galician in all fields. The Linguistic Normalization Act -passed unanimously on June 15th, 1983, by the Galician Parliament- guarantees and regulates citizens’ linguistic rights, particularly those regarding the fields of administration, education and the media.
After the enactment of this act, several orders and decrees were passed to complement the legal framework and ensure the recovery of Galician in the local, judicial and military administration. This legislative framework offers the possibility to communicate in Galician with the different administrations acting in Galicia and recognizes Galician place names as the only official forms. Furthermore, in accordance with the Linguistic Normalization Act, the local and autonomic administrations are obliged to write all of their official documents in Galician; the use of Galician is established in the whole educational system and the promotion of the language is guaranteed in those countries with emigrant Galician communities as well as in Galician-speaking areas bordering the Community.
Along the over twenty years of implementation of the Linguistic Normalization Act, crucial progress has been made in the process of normalization of Galician. The knowledge of Galician is a requirement for entry into public employment, as established in the Act of civil service; likewise, its status has been enhanced through the passing, in 1997, of the Act of local regime and other acts on the linguistic rights of consumers, product labelling, etc. However, full legal equality with Castilian has not been reached yet.

Galician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community with the constitutional status of "historic nationality," located in northwestern Spain and small bordering zones in neighbouring autonomous communities of Asturias and Castilla y León.

Want to practice your Galician? Meetup with others in your area who are also interested in the Galician language. All ages and levels of proficiency are welcome!

Largest
The Burbank Cuban Culture Meetup Group

27 Members
Newest
The Burbank Cuban Culture Meetup Group

Founded Jul 26, 2006
Popular Meetups with Galician Language Speakers
Expat Spanish
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Jewel

Galicia has over 2,800,000 inhabitants. The Galician-speaking territory is delimited by the Autonomous Community of Galicia and the farthest western area of Asturias, León and Zamora, as well as three small areas in Extremadura. The distribution of Galician is geographically homogeneous, there being no territorial areas where its use is not verified.
Apart from this, and due to the historical circumstances of the Galician emigration around the world, there are some regions with a large concentration of people of Galician origin. This population preserved its language as communication vehicle -not only in the private field but also in the public field- through periodicals, literary publications or even in the radio in host countries. There are still large Galician-speaking communities in cities such as Barcelona, Zurich, Montevideo or Buenos Aires.




LEGAL STATUS

Galicia is -by constitutional recognition- an autonomous community with its own institutions: its Parliament, its own government, security corps, its own public media, flag, etc.
The Statute of Autonomy of Galicia -passed in 1981- recognized Galician as the own language of Galicia and the coofficial language of the Community, which “everyone has the right to know and use”, and at the same time made the authorities responsible for the normalization of Galician in all fields. The Linguistic Normalization Act -passed unanimously on June 15th, 1983, by the Galician Parliament- guarantees and regulates citizens’ linguistic rights, particularly those regarding the fields of administration, education and the media.
After the enactment of this act, several orders and decrees were passed to complement the legal framework and ensure the recovery of Galician in the local, judicial and military administration. This legislative framework offers the possibility to communicate in Galician with the different administrations acting in Galicia and recognizes Galician place names as the only official forms. Furthermore, in accordance with the Linguistic Normalization Act, the local and autonomic administrations are obliged to write all of their official documents in Galician; the use of Galician is established in the whole educational system and the promotion of the language is guaranteed in those countries with emigrant Galician communities as well as in Galician-speaking areas bordering the Community.
Along the over twenty years of implementation of the Linguistic Normalization Act, crucial progress has been made in the process of normalization of Galician. The knowledge of Galician is a requirement for entry into public employment, as established in the Act of civil service; likewise, its status has been enhanced through the passing, in 1997, of the Act of local regime and other acts on the linguistic rights of consumers, product labelling, etc. However, full legal equality with Castilian has not been reached yet.

Galician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community with the constitutional status of "historic nationality," located in northwestern Spain and small bordering zones in neighbouring autonomous communities of Asturias and Castilla y León.

Want to practice your Galician? Meetup with others in your area who are also interested in the Galician language. All ages and levels of proficiency are welcome!

Largest
The Burbank Cuban Culture Meetup Group

27 Members
Newest
The Burbank Cuban Culture Meetup Group

Founded Jul 26, 2006
Popular Meetups with Galician Language Speakers
Expat Spanish
Spanish Dual Immersion Program
Diet Soda Addiction
Catalan Language
Hyperhydrosis
Peter Gabriel
CMJ Music
Zone Diet
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome
Jewel

Galicia has over 2,800,000 inhabitants. The Galician-speaking territory is delimited by the Autonomous Community of Galicia and the farthest western area of Asturias, León and Zamora, as well as three small areas in Extremadura. The distribution of Galician is geographically homogeneous, there being no territorial areas where its use is not verified.
Apart from this, and due to the historical circumstances of the Galician emigration around the world, there are some regions with a large concentration of people of Galician origin. This population preserved its language as communication vehicle -not only in the private field but also in the public field- through periodicals, literary publications or even in the radio in host countries. There are still large Galician-speaking communities in cities such as Barcelona, Zurich, Montevideo or Buenos Aires.




LEGAL STATUS

Galicia is -by constitutional recognition- an autonomous community with its own institutions: its Parliament, its own government, security corps, its own public media, flag, etc.
The Statute of Autonomy of Galicia -passed in 1981- recognized Galician as the own language of Galicia and the coofficial language of the Community, which “everyone has the right to know and use”, and at the same time made the authorities responsible for the normalization of Galician in all fields. The Linguistic Normalization Act -passed unanimously on June 15th, 1983, by the Galician Parliament- guarantees and regulates citizens’ linguistic rights, particularly those regarding the fields of administration, education and the media.
After the enactment of this act, several orders and decrees were passed to complement the legal framework and ensure the recovery of Galician in the local, judicial and military administration. This legislative framework offers the possibility to communicate in Galician with the different administrations acting in Galicia and recognizes Galician place names as the only official forms. Furthermore, in accordance with the Linguistic Normalization Act, the local and autonomic administrations are obliged to write all of their official documents in Galician; the use of Galician is established in the whole educational system and the promotion of the language is guaranteed in those countries with emigrant Galician communities as well as in Galician-speaking areas bordering the Community.
Along the over twenty years of implementation of the Linguistic Normalization Act, crucial progress has been made in the process of normalization of Galician. The knowledge of Galician is a requirement for entry into public employment, as established in the Act of civil service; likewise, its status has been enhanced through the passing, in 1997, of the Act of local regime and other acts on the linguistic rights of consumers, product labelling, etc. However, full legal equality with Castilian has not been reached yet.

Galician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community with the constitutional status of "historic nationality," located in northwestern Spain and small bordering zones in neighbouring autonomous communities of Asturias and Castilla y León.