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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 ...
- 20 Countries
Official or national language. Spanish is the official...
- Dialect
Dialect (from Latin dialectus, dialectos, from the Ancient...
- 20 Countries
The Andalusian dialects of Spanish ( Spanish: andaluz, pronounced [andaˈluθ], local: [andaˈluh, ændæˈlʊ]) are spoken in Andalusia, Ceuta, Melilla, and Gibraltar. They include perhaps the most distinct of the southern variants of peninsular Spanish, differing in many respects from northern varieties in a number of phonological ...
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The Spanish language came from a dialect of spoken Latin. In 218 BC, it was brought to the Iberian Peninsula by the Romans. After evolving and improving for centuries, it is the world’s 4th most spoken language today with over 489 million native speakers, after English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindi. Usage
- Spaniards
- Spain, Latin America, and the United States (see below)
- 496 million (2022), +99 million as a second language, 595 million total
Spain: Castilian ( castellano) is the official language of the State. All Spaniards have the duty to know it and the right to use it. Other Spanish languages ( languages of Spain) shall be official in the respective autonomous communities, according to their Statutes of Autonomy. [25] [26] Venezuela.
Spanish 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. Spanish is the official language of 20 countries, as well ...
e. Peninsular Spanish (Spanish: español peninsular ), also known as the Spanish of Spain (Spanish: español de España ), European Spanish (Spanish: español europeo ), or Iberian Spanish (Spanish: español ibérico ), is the set of varieties of the Spanish language spoken in Peninsular Spain. This construct is often framed in opposition to ...
Dialect (from Latin dialectus, dialectos, from the Ancient Greek word διάλεκτος, diálektos 'discourse', from διά, diá 'through' and λέγω, légō 'I speak') refers to two distinctly different types of linguistic relationships. The more common usage of the term refers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a ...
