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'''Galician''' ({{IPAc-en|ɡ|ə|ˈ|l|ɪ|ʃ|ən}},<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/galician |title=galicia |encyclopedia=Merriam-Webster}}</ref> {{IPAc-en|ɡ|ə|ˈ|l|ɪ|s|i|ə|n}};<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/galician |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011052946/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/galician |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 October 2017 |title=Galician |encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionaries}}</ref> {{lang|-gl|label=[[endonym]]|galego}}), also known as '''Galego''', is a [[Iberian Romance languages|Western Ibero-Romance]] language. Around 2.4&nbsp;million people have at least some degree of competence in the language, mainly in [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]], an [[Autonomous communities of Spain|autonomous community]] located in northwestern Spain, where it has official status along with [[Spanish language|Spanish]]. The language is also spoken in some border zones of the neighbouring Spanish regions of [[Asturias]] and [[Castile and León]], as well as by Galician migrant communities in the rest of Spain, in Latin America including [[Puerto Rico]], the United States, Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe.

Modern Galician is classified as part of the [[West Iberian languages]] group, a family of [[Romance languages]]. Galician evolved locally from [[Vulgar Latin]] and developed from what modern scholars have called [[Galician-Portuguese]]. The earliest document written integrally in the local Galician variety dates back to 1230, although the subjacent Romance permeates most written Latin local charters since the High Middle Ages, being specially noteworthy in personal and place names recorded in those documents, as well as in terms originated in languages other than Latin. The earliest reference to Galician-Portuguese as an international language of culture dates to 1290, in the ''Regles de Trobar'' by Catalan author [[Jofre de Foixà]], where it is simply called Galician (''gallego'').{{sfn|Mariño Paz|1998|p=142}}