Galician-Portuguese was the mother tongue of the region until when Portugal became an independent kingdom and Galicia was controlled by the Crown of Castile. As Castilian Spanish became the lingua franca of Spain and mandatory for legal and government business, Galician was increasingly regulated to rural inland areas and smaller villages.
In the early 19th century, Galician experienced a resurgence among intellectuals. However, when the dictatorship of Francisco Franco took over after the Spanish Civil War, all other languages but Castilian Spanish were banned in the name of nationalism. Today, while there are still far more Spanish speakers in northwest Spain, the Galician language has become widely published and a source of pride for its people.
Because of waves of emigration, Galician speaking communities can be found not just in Spain and Portugal, but in Argentina where people of Spanish descent are called gallegos or Galicians. Although Galician is closest to Portuguese, as a fellow Romance language, Galician also reflects influence from Spanish.
Galician follows Portuguese in terms of lexicon and grammar, but standard Galician pronunciation mirrors Spanish. There are some sounds in Galician that do not exist in Spanish. Just as Galician has been heavily influenced by Spanish speakers, Spanish spoken in Galicia has been affected by Galician speakers, specifically in regards to accent and intonation.
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Galician is derived from the Latin spoken in the northwest of Hispania; as a Romance language it is part of the same family as Castilian Spanish , Catalan, French, Italian and other Romance languages.
It is a language closely related to Portuguese, both of which had virtually the same history until the middle of the 16th century. Despite a divergent history since the Middle Ages, even today Galician and Portuguese are mutually intelligible almost without effort. In all, around two and a half million people speak it, being the first language of around two million of these, who use it regularly in their daily lives.
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