About Galician Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Galician is an Indo-European language and consists of the Western Ibero-Romance branch. This language is spoken by 2.4 million people in the world. However, it is mainly spoken in Galicia that is a small community located in northwest Spain. Galician is also spoken in other border zones of Spanish regions of Asturias and Castile and León. Most of the Galician migrants also speak this language while Latin America and Puerto Rico also use it for communication. There is a diverse range of dialects that are used in both north and south of Galician- Portuguese. It is also written in the texts from the 13 century and the two dialects are quite similar to each other. This language contains few words of Germanic and Celtic origin. Some other words are incorporated from Spanish that also include several nouns.
About Afrikaans Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Afrikaans is a West Germanic language. The language is widely spoken in South Africa, Namibia. It is also spoken in Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe but it is a lesser spoken language in these countries. The Afrikaans language is also called Cape Dutch. It was developed by 17th-century Dutch. Afrikaans and English are the only languages that are the official languages of South Africa. Afrikaans is very similar to Dutch, but there are clear differences between the two. It differs from Standard Dutch and has a different sound system. Afrikaans was adopted in schools in 1914. It was also the official language in the Dutch Reformed Church in 1919. distinct Afrikaans literature also gained a lot of popularity in the 20th century. The translation of the Bible is also available in Afrikaans and it was first was published in 1933.
