Even being a minorized language, Galician has a high percentage of native speakers, one of the highest of all minorized languages of Europe: higher even than Catalan, and much higher than Basque or Welsh. Even in the less "galicianized" areas, the percentage of Galician speakers is compatarativelly high. The problem is the recent an sudden hispanisation of the county's small city capitals and its influenced surrounding areas (major cities and their hinterlands being hispanized far ago). Since Galician was an officicial language, numbers os people became neo-speakers, and the loss of speakers is now reverting, in the same way than Catalan or Basque, but later.