Galician Diatopic Varieties

📋 Course Outline

1. Galician Dialectal Blocks
2. Western Block Features
3. Central Block Features
4. Eastern Block Features
5. Vigo Phonetic Features
6. Vigo Morphology and Lexicon

📖 1. Galician Dialectal Blocks

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Diatopic varieties : geographical forms of a language that differ according to the territory where they are spoken

📝 Essential Points

• Galician is divided into the Western, Central and Eastern blocks.

• The isoglosses include:

  • cans in the Western block
  • cas in the Central block
  • cais in the Eastern block

💡 Memory Hook

Western, Central and Eastern blocks differ through their isoglosses: cans, cas and cais.

📖 2. Western Block Features

★ Must-know

• The Western block has plural forms in -ns, as in cans and ladrons.

• The cited Western forms include:

  • ghato
  • amigha
  • irman
  • a irman
  • a man
  • chan

Further detail