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Languages that start with G

8 languages starting with the letter G — each with origin, classification, and notes.

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Table of contents 8 entries
GalicianGeorgianGothicGreek
GreenlandicGuaraniGujaratiGulf Arabic

List of Languages That Start With G

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    Galician

    A Romance language closely related to Portuguese — co-official in Galicia in northwestern Spain, with about 2.4 million speakers.

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    Georgian

    A Kartvelian (South Caucasian) language and the official language of Georgia — written in its own unique 33-letter alphabet, with about 3.7 million speakers.

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    Gothic

    The earliest substantially attested East Germanic language — preserved almost entirely in Bishop Wulfila's 4th-century Bible translation.

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    Greek

    A single-branch Indo-European language with a continuous 3,400-year written record — the language of Homer, Plato, and modern Greece and Cyprus.

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    Greenlandic

    An Eskimo-Aleut language and the sole official language of Greenland — a polysynthetic Inuit language spoken by about 50,000 people.

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    Guarani

    A Tupian language and the co-official language of Paraguay — spoken by about 5 million people, unique among major Latin American languages for being used by both Indigenous and mestizo populations.

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    Gujarati

    An Indo-Aryan language of western India and the mother tongue of about 56 million people — official in Gujarat and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, with global diaspora communities.

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    Gulf Arabic

    The Arabic vernacular of the Persian Gulf coast — spoken from Kuwait to Oman, blending peninsular Arab features with Persian and South Asian loanwords.

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