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Portuguese-Galician (in Portuguese and Galician is known as Galaico-Português) was a Iberian Romance language, spoken in the Middle Ages, in the western area of the Iberian Peninsula. It came via Vulgar Latin. The language was spoken, at first, from the Cantabric Sea to Douro River. But it extended south with the Portuguese Reconquista.

The Portuguese-Galician had a special cultural role in the Christian kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula and the literature it produced is a proof of that. You can compare it to the role of Occitan in the Mediterranean coast.

The three Portuguese-Galician medieval lyrics compositions remaining are:

Some known poets were: Bernardo de Bonaval, Arias Nunes, Pedro da Ponte, Pero Amigo. At first and until 1350, Portuguese-Galician was the only known and standard written native language in the Christian peninsula. The Castilian king Alfonso X, composed his Cantigas de Santa Maria and the Cantigas de Escarnio e Maldizer in Galician-Portuguese, his favourite language for poetry. The Portuguese king, Portuguese-Diniz also wrote his Cantigas and declared Portuguese has a Official language in 1290Events King Edward I of England banishes all Jews from Britain. University of Lisbon founded. Births Deaths December 18 Magnus I of Sweden, king of Sweden 1275- 1290 Eleanor of Castile 1290.. Until then Classical LatinClassical Latin is the language used by the principal exponents of that language in what is usually regarded as 'classical' Latin literature. Its origins within the framework of Indo-European are well understood, but there is much work still to be done on was the official language of Portugal. Then, the spoken language did not have a name, was simply known as Língua Vulgar (Vulgar language or Vulgar Latin).

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The linguistic division (or not) of both languages is still discussed today: there are those (mostly Galician and Portuguese philologists) who demand the reunification of the language.

The Galician version of the language is known to be in danger of extinction (even though it is still spoken by three million people in Galicia), while the Portuguese version continues to grow in use, and today is the sixth most spoken language in the world.

Portuguese-Galician is also known as (part of) Old Portuguese.

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