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Spain: First Online Galician Newspaper Closes Down

Written byRaphael Tsavkko Garcia
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Posted 28 July 2010 21:35 GMT

The first monolingual Galician online newspaper Vieiros [gz] has closed down after 15 years because of financial problems. In a melancholy post, Galician reporter McShuíbhne says the loss of language online amounts to a loss of nation.

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Written byRaphael Tsavkko Garcia

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