- Official language in
- Spain
- Script
- Latin
Where it's spoken
Article 3 of Spain's Constitution says that Castilian is the official Spanish language of the State, and that the other Spanish languages are also official in the respective Self-governing Communities in accordance with their Statutes. Article 5 of the Statute of Autonomy of Galicia says that Galicia's own language is Galician, that Galician and Castilian are official in Galicia, and that everyone has the right to know and use them.
Sources
Script & pronunciation
Galician is written in the Latin alphabet. The Real Academia Galega and Instituto da Lingua Galega orthographic norms list the letter ñ in the modern Galician alphabet, and list ch, gu, ll, nh, qu and rr as digraphs that each represent a single phoneme.
The norms say that the digraph nh represents the velar nasal consonant inside a word before a vowel, with unha as an example. This app's card "Teño unha discapacidade visual. Pode axudarme?" (I am visually impaired — can you help me?) contains both ñ and nh, and its card "a ovella" (Sheep) contains ll.
This app's Galician cards carry no separate romanization line.
Sources
- Real Academia Galega; Instituto da Lingua Galega (2012). Normas ortográficas e morfolóxicas do idioma galego, 23ª ed. — §1 O alfabeto, incl. §1.7
- Unicode ISO 15924 code table, entry "Latn" — Code Latn, English name Latin
Grammar essentials
The norms treat a verb with an enclitic pronoun as a single word for written accents, giving examples such as dáme and dálle. In this app, the card "Pode axudarme?" (in "Teño unha discapacidade visual. Pode axudarme?") attaches me directly to the infinitive, and its note says it is written without a hyphen.
The norms list the contractions of the prepositions a, con, de and en with the definite article, such as do, da, no and na. This app's card "Pode indicarme no mapa?" (Can you point it out on the map?) contains no, the contraction of en and o.
Sources
- Real Academia Galega; Instituto da Lingua Galega (2012). Normas ortográficas e morfolóxicas do idioma galego, 23ª ed. — §2.7.2 (enclitic pronouns and written accents); §14.1.2.1 (contractions)
Politeness & etiquette
The norms say that the forms of courtesy are vostede and vostedes, which require a verb in the third person singular or plural respectively.
This app's cards follow this: "Pode darme o seu número de teléfono?" (Could you give me your phone number?) addresses vostede with pode, while the card "Podes darme o teu número?" (Can you give me your number?) uses the ti form podes. The card "Desculpe" (Sorry / Excuse me (polite)) is described as the vostede form of desculpar, with the ti form Desculpa.