Neogalician

Classification and Dialects
Neogalician is a Slavic language spoken in Galicia and in the Galician Commonwealth. During the Slavic migration period, some Slavic tribes migrated far into Western Europe and brought their language with them and settled in Galicia, which explains why Neogalician seems to be isolated from its Slavic brother-languages. In English, the language is referred as Neogalician to distinguish it with Old Galician being a Latin language and precursor of Modern Portuguese (during the settlement of the Slavic people in Galicia, the Latin people speaking Old Galician were either killed, expelled or assimilated into the Slavic culture). In Neogalician, the popular name of the language is Słovenska mova, which simply means Slavic language, but the more academic and linguistically correct term for the language in Neogalician is Novogalicjanska mova meaning Neogalician language. It is the only Iberian Slavic language and throughout the time it gained a lot of vocabulary and grammatical features from its neighbouring Latin languages, namely Spanish and Portuguese. Although dialects are more and more disappearing, there is a double standard concerning the pronunciation : the Standardno Europejsko Zvučeňe (SEZ), Standard European Pronunciation, spoken in continental Galicia and Standardno Kolonjałsko Zvučeňe (SKZ), Standard Colonial Pronunciation, spoken in Galician oversea territories and in the Galician Commonwealth (expected Galicia), being former Galician colonies.

Writing System

 * r can be syllabic, e.g. : grdło (=throat) /gr̩dwɔ/
 * h is omitted in SKZ, e.g. hrabyr (=brave) /ɦrabɘr/ in SEZ, but /rabɪr/ in SKZ
 * y is realized as /ɪ/ in SKZ, e.g. ty (=you) /tɘ/ in SEZ, but /tɪ/ in SKZ
 * ď is realized as /dj/ in SKZ, e.g. ďen (=day) /ɟεn/ in SEZ, but /djen/ in SKZ
 * ř is realized as /rj/ in SKZ, e.g. řeka (=river) /r̝εka/ in SEZ, but /rjεka/ in SKZ
 * ř is realized as /ʃ/ or /ʒ/ in SEZ if it is preceded by a consonant (/ʃ/ in case of a voiceless consonant and /ʒ/ in case of a voiced consonant), e.g. při (=next to) /pʃi/ in SEZ, but /prji/ in SKZ