RT Journal Article
T1 Galician dialect classifications
A1 Sousa Fernández, Xulio
K1 Regional varieties
K1 Dialectal classification
K1 Ibero-Romance languages
K1 Dialectal areas
K1 Galician
AB This contribution offers an updated review of the classifications of the dialect varieties of Galician. Regional variation in the linguistic domain of Galician has been the subject of reflection since the 18th century. The scholar and writer Martín Sarmiento (1695-1772) pointed out the need to investigate Galician dialects in order to discover their richness and variation. However, scientific studies on dialect varieties were not undertaken until the mid-twentieth century. In this paper, we present the proposals for classifying dialects based on field data from the whole of the Galician domain. The review of this research helps us to understand the characteristics of the materials analysed, the methods used and the reliability of the results offered. The fundamental organisation of the varieties in vertical belts suggested by Zamora Vicente is confirmed by subsequent works, which are richer in the amount of data dealt with, although diverse in the methodology applied.
PB Universitat de Barcelona
SN 2013-2247
YR 2023
FD 2023-12-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/45180
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/45180
LA eng
NO Sousa Fernández, Xulio C. “Galician dialect classifications”. Dialectologia: revista electrònica, Special Issue 11, 2023, pp. 111-45, doi:10.1344/DIALECTOLOGIA2023.2023.5
NO This work was funded by FEDER/Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades – Agencia Estatal de Investigación (PGC2018-095077-B-C44) and by the Competitive Reference Groups 2021-2024 (ED431C 2021/24) from the Xunta de Galicia. The maps have been made by Xulio Sousa and Esther Nidáguila using QGIS.
DS Minerva
RD 6 jun 2026