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4 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.
3 days ago · English is the third-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish; it is also the most widely learned second language in the world, with more second-language speakers than native speakers.
- Manually coded English, (multiple systems)
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4 days ago · Today, the individual Indo-European languages with the most native speakers are English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hindustani, Bengali, Punjabi, French and German each with over 100 million native speakers; many others are small and in danger of extinction.
- † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
2 days ago · Spanish syllable structure is phrasal, resulting in syllables consisting of phonemes from neighboring words in combination, sometimes even resulting in elision. The phenomenon is known in Spanish as enlace. For a brief discussion contrasting Spanish and English syllable structure, see Whitley (2002:32–35). Other phonotactic tendencies
2 days ago · Slang Words. Olé and Ojalá: The vibrant language of Spanish, with expressions like “¡Olé!” and “Ojalá!”, serves as a colourful tapestry of diverse dialects, each with its unique linguistic idiosyncrasies. From the rolling ‘r’s of Iberian Spain to the lilting intonation of Latin American countries, Spanish dialects are as varied ...
1 day ago · In Basque, the name of the language is officially euskara (alongside various dialect forms). In French, the language is normally called basque, though euskara has become common in recent times. Spanish has a greater variety of names for the language. Today, it is most commonly referred to as vasco, lengua vasca, or euskera.
1 day ago · History of Latin. One of the seven ceiling frescoes painted by Bartolomeo Altomonte in his 80th year for the library of Admont Abbey. An allegory of the Enlightenment, it shows Aurora, goddess of dawn, with the geniuses of language in her train awakening Morpheus, god of dreaming, a symbol of man. The geniuses are Grammar, Didactic, Greek ...
