The Galician Academy of the Portuguese Language (

Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...

: ''Academia Galega da Língua Portuguesa'') is a learned institution dedicated to the advancement, study, and normalization of Galicia's language. The academy promotes

Reintegrationism Reintegrationism ( Galician and pt, reintegracionismo; , ) is the linguistic and cultural movement in Galicia which advocates for the unity of Galician and Portuguese as a single language. In other words, the movement postulates that Galician a ...

, the concept that the language spoken in Galicia (dubbed the Galician language by some) is in fact merely a dialect of the

Portuguese language Portuguese ( or, in full, ) is a western Romance language of the Indo-European language family, originating in the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is an official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and ...

and should be standardized to the international Portuguese norms of language.

Goals

The Academy's goal is to promote the study of the country's language and its integration into the

Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 The Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 ( pt, Acordo Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa de 1990) is an international treaty whose purpose is to create a unified orthography for the Portuguese language, to be used by all the countrie ...

. The Academy includes among its promoters some of the Galician delegates that attended the

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a ...

and Lisbon meetings that led to the

international treaty A treaty is a formal, legally binding written agreement between actors in international law. It is usually made by and between sovereign states, but can include international organizations, individuals, business entities, and other legal pers ...

Structure

The Academy is self-governing and independent, and maintains close ties with the

Brazilian Academy of Letters The Academia Brasileira de Letras (ABL) ( English: ''Brazilian Academy of Letters'') is a Brazilian literary non-profit society established at the end of the 19th century. The first president, Machado de Assis, declared its foundation on Tue ...

and the

Sciences Academy of Lisbon The Lisbon Academy of Sciences ( pt, Academia das Ciências de Lisboa) is Portugal's national academy dedicated to the advancement of sciences and learning, with the goal of promoting academic progress and prosperity in Portugal. It is one of Po ...

. In 2009 the Galician Academy produced a list of over one thousand words commonly used in Galicia's

, for introduction into various Portuguese and Brazilian dictionaries and vocabularies.

References

External links

Academia Galega da Língua Portuguesa
* Lexicon of Galiza Portuguese language academies Learned societies of Spain Galician language Portuguese language 2008 establishments in Spain {{Spain-school-stub