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 Slovenska mova, which simply means Slavic language, but the more academic and linguistically correct terme 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. Dialects are nowadays regressing, but due to the Galician colonial era, there is a double standard concerning the pronunciation, since there is the European Standard Pronunciation (Europejsko Standardňo Zvučeňje - ESZ) and the Colonial Standard Pronunciation (Kolonjaľsko Standardňo Zvučeňje - KSZ). The names already indicate mostly where which of both standards is spoken : the ESZ is spoken in Metropolitan Galicia and its overseas territories and the KSZ is spoken in former Galician colonies.

Writing System
The table above shows the ESZ (European Standard Pronunciation), but as mentionned before there are some differences between the ESZ and the KSZ (Colonial Standard Pronunciation) :
 * devoicing of the voiced consonants being at final position, e.g. : grad (=city) /grad/ in ESZ, but /grat/ in KSZ
 * silent pronunciation of the letter h, e.g. : hitrin (=artful) /ɦitrin/ in ESZ, but /itrin/ in KSZ
 * pronouncing ď as /dʲ/, e.g. : ďen (=day) /ɟɛn/ in ESZ, but /dʲɛn/ in KSZ
 * pronouncing ľ as /j/, e.g. : hľadeň (=fresh) /ɦʎadɛɲ/ in ESZ, but /jadɛnʲ/ in KSZ
 * pronouncing ň as /nʲ/, e.g. : hľadeň (=fresh) /ɦʎadɛɲ/ in ESZ, but /jadɛnʲ/ in KSZ
 * pronouncing ř as /rʲ/, e.g. : řeka (=river) /rʒɛka/ in ESZ, but /rʲɛka/ in KSZ

Nouns
Nouns in Neogalician can accord to three genders (masculine, feminine and neuter) and decline according to cases (nominative, accusative and dative) and numbers (singular, plural and paucal) :

Masculine

 * masculine nouns ending in ľ add j to the ending while being declined, e.g. : učiteľ (=primary school teacher  - nominative singular) - učiteľja (accusative singular)
 * masculine nouns ending in r change to ř while being declined, e.g. : siňjor (=mister - nominative singular) - siňjořa (accusative singular)