About Galician Language | Galician | Alphabets in Galician

Countries

Galicia

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Galicia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Royal Galician Academy (Real Academia Galega)

Interesting Facts

In Galician language, there are no compound tenses.
The earliest document in Galician language was written in 1228 which was legal charter for a municipality of Galicia.

Similar To

Portuguese Language

Derived From

Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 5 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 4 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 9 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 3 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

28 weeks

Rank: 9 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Ola

Thank You

Grazas

How Are You?

Que tal estás?

Good Night

Boas noites

Good Evening

Boa tarde

Good Afternoon

Boa tarde

Good Morning

Bos días

Please

Por favor

Sorry

Síntoo!

Bye

Adeus

I Love You

Ámote

Excuse Me

Perdoe!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Eastern Galician

Where They Speak

East Galicia

How Many People Speak

2,700,000.00

Rank: 52 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Central Galician

Where They Speak

Central Galicia

How Many People Speak

2,500,000.00

Rank: 53 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Western Galician

Where They Speak

West Galicia

How Many People Speak

3,000,000.00

Rank: 44 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 3 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

2.40 million

Rank: 79 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.05 %

Rank: 59 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

2.40 million

Rank: 76 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million

Rank: 54 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

Galego

Alternative Names

Galego, Gallego

French Name

galicien

German Name

Galicisch

Pronunciation

[ɡaˈleɣo]

Ethnicity

Galician people

History

Origin

c. 1175

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

Medieval Galician

Standard Forms

Galician

Language Position

Rank: 43 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Galician Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

glg

ISO 639 2/B

glg

ISO 639 3

glg

ISO 639 6

glg

Glottocode

gali1258

Linguasphere

51-AAA-ab

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Language Morphological Typology

Know Alphabets in Galician

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Galician Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Galician Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Galician. Galician phonology gives Galician vowels and Galician consonants. There are 7 vowels and 19 consonants in Galician language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Galician is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Galician language is given in detail in this section.

All Galician countries

Want to explore all Galician countries? About Galician language serves you with all Galician Speaking Countries. Countries that use Galician as official language are called as Galician countries.

Countries that use Galician as their National Language are: Galicia.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Galician as second language are: Galician is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Galician greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Galician Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Galician language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Galician language.Learn Galician greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: Ola
Thank you: Grazas
Good Morning: Bos días
Good Evening: Boa tarde
Good Afternoon: Boa tarde

All Galician Language Codes

Get to know all Galician language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Galician Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.