Galega

Gaglanego (endonym: Gaglanego; Gaglanego: [gaˈʎanego]), also called as Gallano by neibouring Galician speakers, is a Insular Celtic language which evolved under strong influence of vulgar Latin. Gaglanego has official status along with Spanish, and speakers of Gaglanego are basically bilingual with Galician. Although the area of this language is mainly restricted to Galicia inside the Iberian peninsular, there are several oversea Gaglanego communities which are established by the immigrants to Middle and South America. Basically, Gaglanego is a Brythonic language with Celtic lexicon and Iberian Latin featured sound changes, its grammar also shifts from Celtic languages to resemble its Latin neibours.

Etymology

The name Gaglanego is the language of Gaglaña, this term comes from the endonym Gallania, which is used to distinct the Brythonic speakers that immigrated to Galicia around 6BC by local German speakers, as they . While the