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# galician

«galician» in Mova's school dictionary: **From Galicia, a region in the north-west of Spain, or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) From Galicia, a region in the north-west of Spain, or about its people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galician/#m1)

2) (language) Galician, a language spoken in Galicia, close to Portuguese. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galician/#m3)

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «galician» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/galician/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.