Language code: gl
Technical information about ISO 639 language code gl
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The table below provides technical details for the Galician language, designated by the gl code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Galician Native Galego |
| Family | Romance |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Western GalicianCentral GalicianEastern Galician |
| Related languages | PortugueseMirandeseAsturianLeoneseSpanish |
| Key facts | Developed from the medieval Galician-Portuguese language once shared with PortugueseKeeps distinctive nasal vowels and palatal consonants that differentiate it from SpanishTwo competing orthographic norms exist—the official ILG-RAG system and the reintegrationist spelling closer to PortugueseGalician-Portuguese troubadour songbooks (Cantigas) are among the earliest secular lyric poetry in Western EuropeThe language favors the simple past tense where Spanish would use the present perfect |
| Sample phrase | Ola, como estás? |
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Galician is a member of the Indo-European family of languages, falling within the Romance subgroup. It is co-official with Spanish in Galicia, Spain, and is written using the Latin script (Galician alphabet). It is estimated that there are over 2.5 million native speakers globally.
Language presence globally
Speakers
2.5M
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Galician speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
Related locale codes
gl-ES – Galician (Spain)
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- What is Localizely?
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- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
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- Supported file formats
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ