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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.
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===
===Vowels===
[format of vowel outcome]
'''Short vowels'''
{|class="wikitable"
 
|-
!rowspan=2|Proto-Celtic
!rowspan=2|Condition
!rowspan=2|Old Galega
!rowspan=2|Late Galega
! rowspan="2" |Old Cornish
! rowspan="2" |Middle Cornish
! rowspan="2" |Late Cornish
!colspan=6|Example
|-
!Proto-Celtic
!Old Galega
!Late Galega
!Translation
!Late Breton
!Late Welsh
|-
 
|}
 
'''Long vowels and dipthongs'''
{|class="wikitable"
 
|-
!rowspan=2|Proto-Celtic
!rowspan=2|Condition
!rowspan=2|Old Galega
!rowspan=2|Late Galega
!colspan=6|Example
|-
!Proto-Celtic
!Old Galega
!Late Galega
!Translation
!Late Breton
!Late Welsh
|-
|all places
|i
|rowspan="4" |i
|līwos
|liwo
|livo
|"colour" m.
|liv
|lliw
|}
 
Galanego vowels presents following features:  
Galanego vowels presents following features:  
* Galanego doesn't have diphthongization in open and closed syllables as in Portuguese and Catalan.
* 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/.
* 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.
* Only final a & i vowel affection are affective in Galanego compared to modern Celtic languages.

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