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Galician people or Galicians ((ガリシア語:galegos), (スペイン語:gallegos)) are a national, cultural and ethnolinguistic group whose historic homeland is Galicia, in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. Two Romance languages are widely spoken and official in Galicia: the native Galician, and Castilian.〔(Use of Galician language 2003 )〕 ==Etymology of the ethnonym== The ethnonym Galicians or ''Galegos'', derives from the Latin ''Gallaecos'' or Callaeci, itself an adaptation of the name of a local Celtic tribe known to the Greeks as ''καλλαικoι'' (Kallaikoi), who lived in what is now northern Portugal and who were conquered by the Roman General Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus in the 2nd century BCE. The Romans later applied this name to all the people who shared the same culture and language in the north-west, from the Douro river valley in the south to the Cantabrian Sea in the north and west to the Navia river. The etymology of the name has been studied since the 7th century by authors such as Isidore of Seville, who wrote that "Galicians are called so, because of their fair skin, as the Gauls", relating the name to the Greek word for milk, but today scholars 〔 derive the name of the ancient ''Callaeci'' either from Proto-Indo-European *kal-n-eH2 'hill', through a local relational suffix -aik-, so meaning 'the highlanders'; or either from Proto-Celtic *kallī- 'forest', so meaning 'the forest (people)'.〔Curchin, Leonard A. (2008) (Estudios Gallegos''The toponyms of the Roman Galicia: New Study'' ). CUADERNOS DE ESTUDIOS GALLEGOS LV (121): 111.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Galician people」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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