# perldoc > Lingua::GL::Stemmer

yaml
---
type: CommandReference
command: Lingua::GL::Stemmer
mode: perldoc
section: 
source: perldoc
---
## Quick Reference
- `Lingua::GL::Stemmer::stem(@words)` — stem Galician words

## Name
Galician Stemmer

## Synopsis
perl
use Lingua::GL::Stemmer;
Lingua::GL::Stemmer::stem(@words);
# or
Lingua::GL::Stemmer::stem(@words);
## Description
Galician is an endangered language spoken in northwest Spain. Morphologically similar to Portuguese, but phonetics differ greatly. Due to the morphological similarity, the Portuguese stemming algorithm can be adopted to stem Galician texts.

See [Lingua::PT::Stemmer](http://localhost/phpMan.php/perldoc/Lingua%3A%3APT%3A%3AStemmer/markdown) for a sketch of the stemming algorithm, and [stemming rules](http://bvg.udc.es/recursos_lingua/stemming.html) for details.

## See Also
- [Lingua::PT::Stemmer](http://localhost/phpMan.php/perldoc/Lingua%3A%3APT%3A%3AStemmer/markdown)
- [Stemming rules](http://bvg.udc.es/recursos_lingua/stemming.html)