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James gets a cleanup

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We will have to use antibach before touching next time
 
Camino Way markers in Bronze
The one from Galicia (the round) and the one from Castilla & Leon. Individually numbered and made by the same people that make the ones you see on your walk.
I must be pretty slow on the uptake because I puzzled over that first word for a while before finally realizing that "Nesta" in Gallego (?) is actually "En esta" in standard Spanish. Likewise it was an abnormally long time during my first visit before I realized that "O" in Galician placenames is actually "El" and "A" is "La." But with "hoxe" for "hoy" I'm beginning to think of Gallego not as a dialect but almost a separate language altogether, just like Portuguese. I wonder which version of the language is taught in Galician schools. Both? (And, yes, I confess to a special interest in languages -- we all have an inner nerd.)
 
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In Galician schools some subjects are studied in Galician , some in Spanish and some in English depending on the school.
The Galician language in schools is the normative by the RAG (Real Academia Galega da Lingua).
A Spanish speaker can understand some words in a conversation in Galician but not enough to follow it, especially if the speakers are from the rural.
 
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I love languages
 
mikebet said:
I'm beginning to think of Gallego not as a dialect but almost a separate language altogether, just like Portuguese.
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It is a separate language, just like Portuguese (and French, and Italian, and Catalan). Like those, it is related to Castilian ("Spanish") but it is actually more closely related to Portuguese than to Castilian, both descending from the medieval Galician-Portuguese language.
 
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