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  1. Of the more than 498 million people who speak Spanish as their native language, more than 455 million are in Latin America, the United States and Canada in 2022. [2] The total amount of native and non-native speakers of Spanish as of October 2022 exceeds 595 million. [2]

  2. 2 days ago · History of Latin America, the history of the region (South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Romance language-speaking Caribbean islands) from the pre-Columbian period, including Spanish and Portuguese colonization, the 19th-century wars of independence, and developments to the end of the 20th century.

  3. Feb 9, 2023 · When the Romans arrived in 206 BCE, they brought their Latin language to the land they called Hispania. It's from that name that we get the modern words for Spain ( España) and Spanish ( español ). The majority of words in Modern Spanish come from Latin, and many of those words still reflect not just the language of the Romans but their ...

  4. Andrés Bello: The Philologist’s Task. From the philological perspectives, arguably the most important figure in the development of Spanish in Latin America at the time of independence is the Venezuelan essayist, linguist, and diplomat Andrés Bello, who established an agenda that helped define the cultural parameters of the young republics in terms of grammar, syntax, lexicography, and ...

  5. 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.

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