Galega

Galanego (endonym: Galanego; Galanego: [galaˈnego]), also called as Galano by neibouring Galician speakers, is a Insular Celtic language which evolved under strong influence of vulgar Latin. Galanego 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 Galanego communities which are established by the immigrants to Middle and South America. Basically, Galanego 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 Galanego is the language of Galanha, this term comes from the endonym Gallania, which is used to distinct the Brythonic speakers that immigrated to Galicia around 6BC by local Vulgar Latin speakers, as they mistaken these people come from Gallia(Modern day France). While the Galanego speakers called themselves as Bretonado that time, but eventually they came to accept this exonym as their endonym in order to distinguish with the local British people.

Phonology

Vowels

Similar to its neibour Galician, Galanego also has seven vowels, but use grave marks to distinct close-mid vowels and open-mid vowels:

Vowels

Phoneme (IPA)	Grapheme	Examples
/a/	a	mabo "son"
/e/	e	bedo "world"
/ɛ/	è	cèdo "forest"
/i/	i	cigo "meat"
/o/	o	rodo "red"
/ɔ/	ò	mòro "big"
/u/	u	durno "fist"

Phonology history

Galanego undergone a mixture of both Celtic and Vulgar Latin sound changes. While its lexicon evolved from their nominative forms, not oblique form as its Latin neibours.

Vowels

Short vowels

Proto-Celtic	Condition	Old Galega	Late Galega	Example
				Proto-Celtic	Old Galega	Late Galega	Translation	Late Breton	Late Welsh
i	normally	ɪ	e	ɸritus	rido	redo	"ford" m.	red	rhyd
	final a affection	e̝	ɛ	ɸlikkā	leca	lèca	"slate" f.	lec'h	llech
e	normally	e	e	kwennom	penno	peno	"head" m.	penn	pen
	final i affection	e̝	ɛ				"" m.
a	normally	a	a	markos	marco	marco	"horse" m.	marc'h	march
	final i affection	e̝	ɛ	mantī	menti	menti	"size, quantity" f.	ment	maint

Long vowels and dipthongs

Proto-Celtic	Condition	Old Galega	Late Galega	Example
				Proto-Celtic	Old Galega	Late Galega	Translation	Late Breton	Late Welsh
ī	all places	i	i	līwos	liwo	livo	"colour" m.	liv	lliw
ū		ü		rūnā	ryna	riña	"secret, mystery" f.	rin	rhin
ou		ʉ	u	toutā	tuda	tuda	"people, tribe" f.	tud	tud
oi				oinos	unho	uñ	"one" adv.	un	un
ā		o̜	ɔ	māros	moro	mòro	"big" adj.	meur	mawr
au				auberos	over	òver	"vain, futile" adj.	euver	ofer
ai		e̝	ɛ	kaitos	cedo	cèdo	"forest" m.	koad	coed
ei		e	e	skeitos	scedo	escedo	"shield" m.	skoed	ysgwyt

Galanego vowels presents following features:

• Galanego doesn't have diphthongization in open and closed syllables as in Portuguese and Catalan.
• Galanego once has /y/, also written as "y" before 9th century, but this vowel finally merged with /i/.
• Only final a & i vowel affection are affective in Galanego compared to modern Celtic languages.