Termigal is the body in charge of the general coordination of terminology activities in relation to the Galician language

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...

, of promoting and developing terminological resources and products of linguistic engineering in which terminology plays an important role . It was created in 1997 out of an agreement between Royal Galician Academy

Real Academia Galega

The Royal Galician Academy is an institution dedicated to the study of Galician culture and especially the Galician language; it promulgates norms of grammar, spelling, and vocabulary and works to promote the language. The Academy is based in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. The current president is...

 (as the academic authority in charge of sanctioning the spelling rules for Galizan language) and the Linguistic Planning Agency of the Galician government

Xunta de Galicia

The Xunta de Galicia is the collective decision-making body of the government of the autonomous community of Galicia, composed of the President, the Vice-President and the specialized ministers ....

 (as an independent body with competence in in linguistic policy issues). It currently tries to establish the technical terms for Galizan language, namely:

• they develop glossaries for a wide range of domains of knowledge.
• they provide consulting services by phone or mail to translators, terminologists, etc.