Countries
Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Galicia
Total No. Of Countries
71
0
46
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National Language
Germany
Galicia
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Royal Galician Academy (Real Academia Galega)
Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
- 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Portuguese Language
Derived From
Albanian Languages
Latin
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2623
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
107
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
919
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks28 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
hallo
Ola
Thank You
Danke
Grazas
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
Que tal estás?
Good Night
gute Nacht
Boas noites
Good Evening
guten Abend
Boa tarde
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
Boa tarde
Good Morning
guten Morgen
Bos días
Please
bitte
Por favor
Sorry
Verzeihung
Síntoo!
Bye
Tschüs
Adeus
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
Ámote
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
Perdoe!
Dialects
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Eastern Galician
Where They Speak
Switzerland
East Galicia
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.002,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Swabian German
Central Galician
Where They Speak
Germany
Central Galicia
How Many People Speak
820,000.002,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Texas German
Western Galician
Where They Speak
Texas
West Galicia
How Many People Speak
6,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
283
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million2.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.39 %0.05 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
101.00 million2.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Deutsch
Galego
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Galego, Gallego
French Name
allemand
galicien
German Name
Deutsch
Galicisch
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[ɡaˈleɣo]
Ethnicity
Germans
Galician people
History
Origin
6th Century AD
c. 1175
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Germanic
-
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Medieval Galician
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Galician
Language Position
946
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed German
Galician Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
de
gl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
deu
glg
ISO 639 2/B
ger
glg
ISO 639 3
deu
glg
ISO 639 6
deus
glg
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
gali1258
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
51-AAA-ab
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
-