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19 hours 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 ...
1 day ago · The recent release of 2020 U.S. Census data reflects the continued growth of the Hispanic/Latino population over the last four decades. The Hispanic/Latino population has increased by a factor of 3.25 since 1980, with nearly one in five inhabitants of the United States identifying as Hispanic or Latino. With these demographic changes, language maintenance figures have shown significant change ...
1 day 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 days ago · Flamenco began its life in the southern region of Andalusia, where a melting pot of cultures – Gypsy, Moorish, Jewish, and Christian – fused together over centuries. This blend of traditions, rhythms, and narratives gave birth to flamenco sometime in the 18th century, not just as an art form but as a way of life.
1 day ago · Spanglish continued to spread through yet another military clash: the Spanish-American War of 1898, when the United States established its control over much of the Caribbean. That moment was the start of “a great migration, in which comings and goings created a Hispanic milieu beyond the Caribbean in which the two languages mixed ...
2 days ago · Pic 1: Moctezuma visits Cortés: painting from the Enconchado series, c.1680-1700, depicting the Conquest of Mexico. Museo del Prado, Madrid (Click on image to enlarge) I wouldn’t speak of “the” Spanish, or “the” Aztecs. Conrad Russell, who was a great historian and a clear thinker, said that no English word was more abused than ...
2 days ago · The history of Spain dates to contact between the pre-Roman peoples of the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula made with the Greeks and Phoenicians. During Classical Antiquity, the peninsula was the site of multiple successive colonizations of Greeks, Carthaginians, and Romans. Native peoples of the peninsula, such as the Tartessos ...
