Sousa Fernández, Xulio2020-11-252020-11-252020Sousa, X. From Regional Dialects to the Standard: Measuring Linguistic Distance in Galician Varieties. Languages 2020, 5, 4http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23778The analysis of the linguistic distance between dialect varieties and the standard variety typically focuses on establishing the influence exerted by the standard norm on the dialects. In languages whose standard form was established and implemented well after the beginning of the last century, however, such as Galician, it is still possible to perform studies from other perspectives. Unlike other languages, standard Galician was not based on a single dialect but aspired instead to be supradialectal in nature. In the present study, the tools and methods of quantitative dialectology are brought to bear in the task of establishing the extent to which dialect varieties of Galician resemble or differ from the standard variety. Moreover, the results of the analysis underline the importance of the different dialects in the evaluation of the supradialectal aim, as established by the makers of the standard varietyeng© 2020 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Atribución 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Galician languageDialectsStandardTypologyLinguistic distanceDialectometryLanguage planningLanguage standardizationjournal article10.3390/languages50100042226-471Xopen access