The ALPI's contribution to Galician Linguistics in 1962

At the beginning of the 1960s, there was a clear and shared awareness concerning the profound lack of knowledge about popular Galician; most grammars were normative and technically lacking effectiveness. In 1962 the first volume of the ALPI was published, containing data on popular Galician gathered during the mid-1930s. Despite the publication having been well-received by Galicianist intellectuals, and despite the great interest of the information about several dialectal phenomena documented in the maps, the volume had practically no influence on the budding Galician linguistics. This paper aims to show the significant information included in the first volume of the ALPI, as well as to present several hypotheses on why this work was forgotten.