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# galician

adjective (Galician); noun (a Galician, Galicians; Galician — the language)

«galician» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. From Galicia, a region in the north-west of Spain, or about its people. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galician/#m1)
2. (language) Galician, a language spoken in Galicia, close to Portuguese. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galician/#m2)
3. From Galicia, a historic region now split between western Ukraine and south-east Poland, around Lviv and Kraków. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galician/#m3)

### In the lessons

In geography and language lessons, Galician shows that Spain has several languages (Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Galician). In history, Galician in the Ukrainian–Polish sense is used for people and places of the old Kingdom of Galicia, part of Austria-Hungary until 1918. Which Galicia is meant comes from the context. Phrases: «Galician coast», «speak Galician», «Galician bagpipes».

### Examples

- Santiago de Compostela is a Galician city. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galician/#x1)
- Many people in Galicia speak Galician and Spanish. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galician/#x2)
- The Galician coast is rocky and green. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galician/#x3)
- Galician is close to Portuguese. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galician/#x4)
- Lviv was the chief city of Galicia in Austria-Hungary. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galician/#x5)
- Her great-grandparents were Galician farmers from near Lviv. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galician/#x6)
- Galician bagpipes are called gaitas. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galician/#x7)

### Note

Always with a capital G: Galician. Pronounced «ga-LISH-un». Two different places share the name Galicia: one in Spain, one in Ukraine and Poland; they are not linked.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «galician» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galician/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«galician» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/galician.html) on Mova free.