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2 days ago · 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.
2 days ago · This article is about the phonology and phonetics of the Spanish language. Unless otherwise noted, statements refer to Castilian Spanish, the standard dialect used in Spain on radio and television. [1] [2] [3] [4] For historical development of the sound system, see History of Spanish.
15 hours ago · El español o castellano es una lengua romance procedente del latín hablado, perteneciente a la familia de lenguas indoeuropeas. Forma parte del grupo ibérico y es originaria de Castilla, reino medieval de la península ibérica.
2 days ago · According to a 2019 survey by the Catalan government, 31.5% of the inhabitants of Catalonia predominantly spoke Catalan at home whereas 52.7% spoke Spanish, 2.8% both Catalan and Spanish and 10.8% other languages. Spanish was the most spoken language in Barcelona (according to the linguistic census held by the Government of Catalonia in 2013 ...
2 days ago · Galician language. Galician ( / ɡəˈlɪʃən /, [3] / ɡəˈlɪsiən /; [4] endonym: galego ), also known as Galego, is a Western Ibero-Romance language. Around 2.4 million people have at least some degree of competence in the language, mainly in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it has official status along with Spanish.
- 2.4 million (2012), 58% of the population of Galicia (c. 1.56 million) are L1 speakers (2007)
5 days ago · Thus excellent recent ‘revisionist’ works by Sean Perrone and Aurelio Espinosa on the Castilian policies of Charles V (1516–56) have both underlined the extent to which the power and authority of the 16th century state were much less ‘absolute’ than the ilustrados imagined. Government was much more complex, being dependent upon a ...
15 hours ago · The Spanish Empire, [b] sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy [c] or the Catholic Monarchy, [d] [5] [6] [7] was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. [8] [9] In conjunction with the Portuguese Empire, it ushered in the European Age of Discovery. It achieved a global scale, [10] controlling vast portions of the Americas ...
