LINGUIST List 8.745

Sat May 17 1997

FYI: Galician Language

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  • Henrique Serra, Galician Language

    Message 1: Galician Language

     Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 13:01:44 +1100
    From: Henrique Serra <jeff.marckanu.edu.au>
    Subject: Galician Language


    Forwarded from a group on Galacian languages:

    I'm writing to you from Galicia, a country in NW Spain (Europe). We Galicians have a lesser used (or minoritised) language and every year, on 17 May we celebrate its day. Last year for the first time we arrived to the Net and tried to gather as many versions as possible of a text talking about minority languages: Vietnamese, Pampango, Asturian, Welsh, Gaelic and many others. This year we would like to add some other languages in an attempt to let the world know that even the least spoken languages of the world can find a place in this new digital era. That's why I'm writing to you. I'd like to know if you could pass this message to your list and try to get some other translations of this text.

    The place were you can find the translations made in 1996 is:

    http://www.iaga.com/vieiros/letrasgalegas/index.html under "traduccions" (translations).

    and this is the text:

    I wanted and want the Galician language to last and continue because its existance is the only possibility for us to exist as a people. I wanted Galicia to continue, not only our grass and granite Galicia, the pride that is the land of our dead, but also the Galicia that is our language. One day, I hope my death to be a eulogy unto this land: that I may give grass to the earth; and my epitaph shall proclaim, "Here lies one whose work made Galicia last a thousand more springtimes".

    We would be very grateful if we hear from you. Thank you very much in advance.

    Saudos desde Galicia / Greetings from Galicia

    Xabier Canosa vieiroscesatel.es