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We think once again about the reality of the Galician language. Also about his future possibilities. We never believe pessimistic prophecies. Nor do we believe the statistics that count the apparent number of language users. If so, we would have to acknowledge the heralded death they tried to cause during four long centuries of cultural silence. But despite the expected decline, the lingua has survived in popular oral expression. No powers of the Administration, Ensin, Igrexa, could make it disappear. Moito tempo apres, xo no XIX, predicted that the new means of communication, i.e. the establishment of the railway, would cause peasants, sailors and craftsmen to suffer because of its disappearance.
However, the previous prophecies failed. On the other hand, a minority of poets will restore our spirituality, languished by cultural inertia. They realized that this was the only way to rebuild Galician personalities. After that, a minority movement of intellectuals of European origin began to give prestige to culture in their own language. about the newsletter to our countrymagazine Ourto Seminario de Estudos Galegos, o idioma cobra pulo de porvir.
Despuis, it is well known what happened. O teimudo perseguimento gives the cultivated expression in the Galician language cheugo to the extreme limits imposed by the dictatorial regime. Again, its final arrangement was predicted. Even famous philologists publicly condemned his helplessness. Because it was only useful, if at all, for verses and for colloquial communication. Feitos once again showed that the two prophets do not correspond to the agoir. One of the integrating parts of the cultural map of Europe, which Galicia had by itself, has been resurrected.
Because of the rich experience of almost fifteen decades in the defense of language, protect us from our anti-pessimistic position. We know times of great difficulty. We dreamed of goals that were mostly fulfilled. Linguists equipped with rigorous scientific knowledge gave a new luster to the language. Galician enters classrooms, dries at an incomplete level. One’s own culture should be nurtured in all eidos of creation, research and essays. Non se acadou, xa que logo, necessary normalization. But we believe that life will offer positive horizons or an open path.
There is no doubt that Galicia is no longer predominantly agrarian. Due to unfavorable circumstances, he moved from the village to the city. Little by little it will disappear in the flaw or stigma of social differentiation. It is true that many countries that usually communicate between them or Galicia communicate with their counterparts in poorly translated Castilian. O feito, even if it increases, it is an old costume. It compensates, sometimes partially, the introduction of an urban population, unpredictable in non-moi lonxanos times. Ben, we decided there were many obstacles to overcome. In any case, they do not give pessimistic agoires that are formulated about the idiomatic future.
Who has reliable authority to predict or prove language of higher or lower dimensions? Quen adiantou a nova do esmorecer do imperial Latin? Who can advocate or what will happen to hoxe english? Language is a complex phenomenon carried out by all those who speak and nurture it: the poor, writers, philologists… No one can exclusively rule or assert what its continuity will be in time. The Galician, with an existence of more than a thousand years, manifested itself in times with the then and now double expression: a da culture ea da vida. Of course, the language of life involves the educated in a certain way, while living people elaborate culture. And I continued to play polo there tomorrow.
Source: La Vozde Galicia
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