Galician

//ɡəˈlɪs.i.ən//

"Galician" in a Sentence (20 examples)

Today we have many new translations in Galician and Basque.

Do you speak Galician?

I never studied Galician.

Where can I study Galician?

Filloa is a traditional Galician dessert.

In the 19th century, a great literary revitalization in both the Catalan and the Galician languages' literature occurred. In Catalonia, the movement was called "la Renaixença" ('the Rebirth') and was headed by poet Jacint Verdaguer, dramatist Àngel Guimerà, and novelist Narcís Oller. In Galicia, it was "o Rexurdimento" ('the Resurgence'), majorly represented by poets: Rosalía de Castro, Manuel Curros Enríquez, and Eduardo Pondal.

Do you know if Tom knows Galician?

We spent several nights in different Galician villages.

Whoever is born in Galicia is Galician.

The Galician estuaries are famous for their seafood.

The subsequent oil slicks that reached the coast resulted in severe ecological and economic consequences for the Galician coast and the Bay of Biscay.

"I have been asked over by Dr. Maupuis of the Institut Métapsychique to see some of the experiments which he is conducting upon a Galician medium."

The "entierro de la sardina," the burial of the sardine, is a Galician custom popular in many villages on Ash Wednesday.

This vowel is similar to the Catalan sound in the words Jordi or sola and to the Galician sound in the words ola or po.

The little Galician was sitting nibbling a biscuit with a glass of red wine before him.

In Argentina, too, there is a community of Welsh-speakers. Similarly some Galicians, Catalans and Basques have retained their mother tongues in ways that had they remained, respectively in the United Kingdom or Spain, might have been more difficult to do.

The Portuguese claim that a Galician would never be generous, as a Portuguese would. On their side, the Galicians tell the story of the Portuguese who invites some Galicians to dinner and then gives his guests very little to eat.

Rosalia de Castro became a crucial element in this early nationalist cultural campaign: she spoke Galician as her first language and she was literate, educated, and sympathetic to the group's progressive aims.

Victor Adler was born in a small Moravian town on the Galician border.

According to Manuilsky, some Galicians idealized the Austro-Hungarian past for the empire's promotion of national autonomy, yet the Habsburgs had discouraged Eastern Galicia's economic development, whereas the Soviet power would 'turn Lviv into one of the biggest industrial centres of Soviet Ukraine.'

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.