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| | LINGUIST List 6.983: Linguistic separatism |
 | | As for Galiza, to the extent that the Spanish state is able to keep the lid on the language issue by taming the language of Galiza (Portuguese) and turning it into a domestic "Galician", no problem -- Galiza won't reach the news. |
 | | Galiza, as many other minorized cultures of the world, is caught between two states: Spain and Portugal. |
 | | What the Kingdom of Spain and, particularly, its representatives in Galiza (the majority of the local political and intellectual elites) can't cope with is the fact that another state's language, Portuguese, is spoken (and written as such, by a small fraction of the elites) within Spanish territory. |
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