gl
Technical information about ISO 639 language code gl
The table below provides technical details for the Galician language, designated by the gl
code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
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.
Speakers
2.5M
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Galician speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
gl-ES
– Galician (Spain)
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