Indo-European family
Galician
c. 1400 CE – today Living
Galician (c. 1400 CE – today) is a living Indo-European language. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Italic → … → Vulgar Latin → Galician-Portuguese → Galician.
See Galician on the interactive map- Speakers
- 2.4M (2,400,000)
- ISO 639-3
- glg
- Glottocode
- gali1258
Whether Galician and Portuguese are separate languages or varieties of one language (reintegrationism) is debated.
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
- Proto-Italicc. 1,500 BCE – 700 BCE
- Proto-Latino-Faliscanc. 1,000 BCE – 700 BCE
- Old Latinc. 700 BCE – 100 BCE
- Latin100 BCE – 300 CE
- Vulgar Latin300 CE – 800 CE
- Galician-Portuguesec. 900 CE – 1400 CE
- Galicianc. 1400 CE – today
Sister languages 1
Also descended from Galician-Portuguese.