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Language code: glg

Technical information about ISO 639 language code glg

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The table below provides technical details for the Galician language, designated by the glg code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

glg

Name

Official

Galician

Native

Galego

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Western GalicianCentral GalicianEastern Galician
Related languages
PortugueseFalaSpanishAsturian-Leonese
Key facts
Direct descendant of medieval Galician-Portuguese, a prestigious language of troubadour poetryShares roughly 89 % lexical similarity with Portuguese, yielding high mutual intelligibilityOrthography and language norms are overseen by the Royal Galician AcademyMany speakers produce gheada, aspirating the /g/ sound, as a salient phonetic traitSome rural varieties preserve nasal vowels that disappeared from most neighboring Romance languages.
Sample phrase

Ola, como estás?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Galician language, identified by the code glg, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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