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 Spanish Language
According to Wikipedia.org, The Spanish language is from the Indo-European family. It is spoken by 360 million people all over the world. If we talk about the early 21st century Mexico had the highest number of speakers (around 85 million). In Columbia, there are around 40 million people while Argentina has around 35 million speakers. Even in the United States, there are more than 31 million speakers. Spanish is the official language of 18 American countries. This language has got the dialect from modern standard Spanish. Castilian dialect became popular in the 9th century and is spoken in central Spain around Madrid. During the late 15th century Castilian became the official language of Spain. The Castilian dialect is commonly used in all parts of Spain and is still going strong.
