# Galician Language Association

The Associaçom Galega da Língua is a reintegracionist group created in 1981 that aims for the full normalization of the Galician language, which it considers to be a branch of the Galician-Portuguese language. Contrary to the norms of the RAG, its Comissom Lingüística published its own norms in 1983 titled Estudo crítico das normas ortográficas e morfolóxicas do idioma galego. Today, these norms, revised and expanded, are condensed in the work Ortografia Galega Moderna confluente com o Português no mundo. AGAL seeks to incorporate Galician into the Galician-Luso-Brazilian linguistic sphere. It considers that Galician is the name that Portuguese has in Galicia and accepts that the international name is Portuguese.

## Constitution of AGAL

In May 1981, several meetings took place in Santiago de Compostela, concluding that it was necessary to take advantage of the new political conditions (Statute of Autonomy of Galicia) to address the problems of the Galician language. It was agreed to establish an association (AGAL) with the objective of achieving a substantial linguistic and cultural reintegration of Galician, especially in written manifestations, in the linguistic and cultural area that is proper to it: the Galician-Luso-African-Brazilian (extract from AGAL's first Statutes).
On June 9 of that year, the founding act was drafted in A Coruña, with members including Xavier Alcalá, António Gil Hernández, Manuel Miragaia, José Maria Monterroso, and Joám Carlos Rábade. In October, the association was legalized, and in December, the first National Council was elected, chaired by founding member Xavier Alcalá.
AGAL was one of the institutions that in 1986 promoted the creation of the A Mesa pola Normalización Lingüística.
In 2018, it adopted binormativism as a programmatic axis.

## Presidents

* 1981 to 1982: Xavier Alcalá (telecommunications engineer and writer)
* 1982 to 2001: Maria do Carmo Henríquez Salido (linguist, professor at the University of Vigo)
* 2001 to 2007: Bernardo Penabade (linguist and professor of Galician Language at IES Perdouro in Burela)
* 2007 to 2009: Alexandre Banhos (sociologist, civil servant)
* 2009 to 2012: Valentim Rodrigues Fagim (linguist and professor of Portuguese at the official language schools of Ourense and Santiago de Compostela)
* 2012 to 2015: Miguel Rodrigues Penas (communication professional, first director of Através Editora, businessman, and one of the founders of the PGL)
* 2015 to 2023: Eduardo Maragoto (linguist and professor of Portuguese at the EOI of Valencia and Santiago de Compostela)
* Since July 2023: Jon Amil (doctor and manager of the linguistic consultancy @emgalego)

## Honorary Members

Throughout its history, especially in the early years, AGAL distinguished several personalities as Honorary Members:
* Galicians: Ricardo Carvalho Calero, Jenaro Marinhas del Valle, José Posada and Camilo Nogueira
* Exiled and emigrated Galicians: Ernesto Guerra da Cal, Ricardo Flores, Higino Martins
* Portuguese: Manuel Rodrigues Lapa, Óscar Lopes
* Brazilians: Leodegário A. de Azevedo Filho, Sílvio Elia, Gladstone Chaves de Melo

## AGAL as a publisher

AGAL was formally recognized as a publisher at the end of 2008 by joining the Consorcio Editorial Galego. However, since the association's founding, it had already published essays, conference proceedings, and books of poetry, theater, or fiction by authors such as Ramom Lôpez Suevos, Ricardo Carvalho Calero, Elvira Souto, Carlos Garrido, Carles Riera, Manuel María, Ernesto Guerra da Cal, João Guisán Seixas, and Jenaro Marinhas del Valle.
Additionally, since 1985, it has published the magazine Agália, which has had periods of quarterly and more recently semi-annual editions.
In 2010, AGAL Editora was renamed Através Editora, and it also renamed its different collections. Upon its launch, it published works by Carlos Taibo, Séchu Sende, and Ugia Pedreira.