Countries
Galicia
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Galicia
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii
Regulated By
Royal Galician Academy (Real Academia Galega)
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Portuguese Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Latin
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2328
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
78
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1920
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
410
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
28 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ola
您好
Thank You
Grazas
谢谢
How Are You?
Que tal estás?
你好吗？
Good Night
Boas noites
晚安
Good Evening
Boa tarde
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Boa tarde
下午好
Good Morning
Bos días
早上好
Please
Por favor
请
Sorry
Síntoo!
遗憾
Bye
Adeus
再见
I Love You
Ámote
我爱你
Excuse Me
Perdoe!
原谅我
Dialect 1
Eastern Galician
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
East Galicia
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Galician
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Central Galicia
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Galician
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
West Galicia
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
2.40 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.05 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
2.40 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Galego
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Galego, Gallego
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
galicien
cantonais
German Name
Galicisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ɡaˈleɣo]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Galician people
Han Chinese
Origin
c. 1175
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Medieval Galician
No early forms
Standard Forms
Galician
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
461
1
120
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Signed Forms
Galician Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
gl
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
glg
yue
ISO 639 2/B
glg
yue
ISO 639 3
glg
No data available
ISO 639 6
glg
yue
Glottocode
gali1258
cant1236
Linguasphere
51-AAA-ab
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-