Celtic Knot Conference 2024/Submissions/Galician toponymy in Wikipedia: references for 40 000 articles

Submission no.

About the submission

Title of the submission

Galician toponymy in Wikipedia: references for 40 000 articles

Type of submission

• Presentation – 20–25 minute presentation. This time includes questions from the audience.

Abstract (up to 300 words to describe your proposal)

In Galicia there are 313 councils, 3771 parishes and more than 37 000 hamlets. Some of them have the same name, but there are many, many diferent toponyms. The etymologies of their names allow us to know about the history of our country, since the pre-roman heritage (is there any celtic influence?), with the latin heritage and the suevian and arabic legacy. Wich bibliography and references could we use as sources to explain the origin of the galician place names? The etymology of a toponym is usually explained in the respective Wikipedia articles, but in some cases we can also use the Wikidata P138 property (named after), and understand the chains of naming process. We could also categorice the articles according to the origin (latin, germanic, arabic...), name meanings (hydronyms, oronyms, zoonyms, hodonyms...). All those places have got their coordinates in Wikidata, so we could also analyze the historical dialectology of Galician language through the toponyms.

Theme of session

• Visions Forged: Charting Paths in Language Advocacy

What will attendees take away from this session?

The project could be exportable to other languages, in order to search references for local toponyms

Language of presentation

English

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About the author

Author of the submission

Adrián Estévez Iglesias (User:Estevoaei)

E-mail address

adrian.estevez.iglesiasgmail.com

Country of origin

Galicia (Spain)

Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)

WMES, WMPT

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Is this Submission a Draft or Final?

Final

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