1 day ago · Spanish ( español or lengua española) or Castilian ( lengua castellana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with about 474.7 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain. [1]
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- History of The Spanish Language
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- Castilian
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3 days ago · Spanish has five vowel phonemes, /i/, /u/, /e/, /o/ and /a/ (the same as Asturian-Leonese, Aragonese, and also Basque). There is no phonemic distinction between close-mid and open-mid vowels, unlike in Catalan, French, Italian and Portuguese.
1 day ago · The Maya were finally conquered in 1697. The Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation —the first circumnavigation of the Earth—laid the foundation for Spain's Pacific empire and for Spanish control over the East Indies. In the early 1500s, Spanish forces captured several Muslim cities in North Africa, forcing them to pay tribute to Spain. [29]
1 day ago · Spanish colonization of the Americas. Flag of Spanish conquistadors with the crown of Castile on a red flag, used by Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro and others. The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola after the initial 1492 voyage of Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus under license from ...
2 days ago · Spain during World War I Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera Revolution and Asturian miners' strike The history of Spain dates to contact the pre-Roman peoples of the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula made with the Greeks and Phoenicians.
2 days ago · This is a list of many of the different language editions of Wikipedia; as of July 2023, there are 334 Wikipedias. For their number of articles, see the main list .
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