Galician–Portuguese

Galician–Portuguese
Galaic-Portuguese, Old Galician–Portuguese, Old Galician, Old Portuguese, Medieval Galician, Medieval Portuguese
romanço, romançe, rimanço
Native toKingdom of Galicia, County of Portugal
RegionNorthwestern Iberia
EraAttested 870 A.D.; by 1400 had split into Galician, Fala, and Portuguese.
Early forms
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
079
GlottologNone
Spoken area of Galician–Portuguese in the Kingdom of León around the 10th century, before the separation of the Galician and Portuguese languages.

Galician–Portuguese (Galician: galego-portugués or galaico-portugués; Portuguese: galego-português or galaico-português), also known as Old Galician–Portuguese, Galaic-Portuguese, or (in contexts focused on one of the modern languages) Old Galician, Old Portuguese, Medieval Galician or Medieval Portuguese, was a West Iberian Romance language spoken in the Middle Ages, in the northwest area of the Iberian Peninsula. It is both the ancestor language and historical period of development of modern Galician, Fala, and Portuguese languages which maintain high degree of mutual intelligibility.

Galician–Portuguese was first spoken in the area bounded in the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean and by the Douro River in the south, comprising Galicia and northern Portugal, but it was later extended south of the Douro by the Reconquista.

The term "Galician–Portuguese" also designates the matching subdivision of the modern West Iberian group of Romance languages in Romance linguistics.

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