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  1. Present-day languages. The languages spoken in Spain include: Spanish. Official throughout the country, it is spoken by the majority of the population. Catalan, co-official in Catalonia, the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands.

    • Castilian (Spanish) Number of Speakers: 45 million. Region: All regions of Spain. The Spanish language is indigenous to Spain’s central region, known as Castilla (Castile).
    • Catalan. Number of Speakers: 9 million. Region: Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands in Spain. Though often solely associated with Barcelona, el catalán (Catalan) is spoken in several areas of Spain and southern Europe.
    • Galician. Number of Speakers: 2.4 million. Region: Galicia. Known in Spanish as el gallego, Galician is spoken in the autonomous community of Galicia, the part of Spain located directly north of Portugal.
    • Basque. Number of Speakers: 700,000. Region: Basque Country in Northern Spain. Sometimes known as el vasco, Basque is spoken in el euskadi (the Basque Country), a region that encompasses parts of both northern Spain and southern France.
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  3. Spanish (sometimes called Castilian) is the only official language of the entire country and is spoken habitually and as a native language among a vast majority of the Spanish population. Spain is, along with Colombia [4] and after Mexico and the United States, [5] ranked third in the world as the country with the most Spanish speakers .

  4. Spanish ( español) or Castilian ( castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 600 million when including second language speakers.

  5. Dec 28, 2020 · The main foreign languages of Spain are English, French, and German. Approximately 27% of the population speaks English. Some English speakers are British-born, others use English for business transactions. French is spoken by 12% of the population, and like English, this is a common business language.

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  6. May 21, 2024 · Spanish language, Romance language (Indo-European family) spoken as a first language by some 360 million people worldwide. In the early 21st century, Mexico had the greatest number of speakers, followed by Colombia, Argentina, the United States, and Spain. It is an official language of more than 20 countries.

  7. Spanish, the official language in the entire country, is the predominant native language in almost all of the autonomous communities in Spain. Six of the seventeen autonomous communities in Spain have other co-official languages in addition to Spanish.

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