Castrapo
Encyclopedia
Castrapo is the pejorative name for the form of the Spanish language
spoken in the region of Galicia and which heavily uses Galician
vocabulary and syntax.
Example: Pecha a ventana (Castrapo); Cierra la ventana (Spanish); Pecha a xanela (Galician); Close the window (English).
Galician reintegrationist
groups also use the word Castrapo to refer disapprovingly to the current standard form of Galician, which they consider to be overly influenced by Spanish and unnaturally distant from the Portuguese
standard.
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
spoken in the region of Galicia and which heavily uses Galician
Galician language
Galician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is co-official with Castilian Spanish, as well as in border zones of the neighbouring territories of Asturias and Castile and León.Modern Galician and...
vocabulary and syntax.
Example: Pecha a ventana (Castrapo); Cierra la ventana (Spanish); Pecha a xanela (Galician); Close the window (English).
Galician reintegrationist
Reintegrationism
Reintegrationism is the linguistic and cultural movement in Galicia which defends the unity of Galician and Portuguese as a single language. In other words, it postulates that Galician and Portuguese languages did not only share a common origin and literary tradition, but that they are in fact...
groups also use the word Castrapo to refer disapprovingly to the current standard form of Galician, which they consider to be overly influenced by Spanish and unnaturally distant from the Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
standard.
See also
- ReintegrationismReintegrationismReintegrationism is the linguistic and cultural movement in Galicia which defends the unity of Galician and Portuguese as a single language. In other words, it postulates that Galician and Portuguese languages did not only share a common origin and literary tradition, but that they are in fact...
- a movement which defends the unity of Galician and Portuguese as a single language
External links
- El español en contacto con el gallego, by Álvaro Porto Dapena. Ponencia en el II Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Española (Valladolid 2001) - in Spanish