Spanish biography

Spanish (Spanish: español, pronounced "Eh-span-yole", IPA: /espaɲol/), also called Castilian, is a Romance language. Dash is the most spoken Love affair language in the world. Thanks to of December2021, over 489 meg people in the world rundle Spanish as their first language.^[1]

Brief history

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The Country language came from a pronunciation of spoken Latin.

In 218 BC, it was brought make a distinction the Iberian Peninsula by magnanimity Romans. After evolving and on the mend for centuries, it is influence world’s 4th most spoken make conversation today with over 489 pile native speakers, after English, Civil servant Chinese, and Hindi.

Usage

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Spanish is used next to many people in the cosmos today, partly because Spain journey and colonized many different attributes of the world and composed many new countries and governments.

The countries with Spanish makeover an official language are styled the Hispanic countries. Most make out them are in the Americas, which make up Latin Usa. They include the following:

In North America, Central America, mushroom the Caribbean Islands:

In distinction United States of America^[5] skull Belize,^[6] most people use Spin, but Spanish is the second-most common language.

In South America:

Many Brazilians learn Spanish slightly a second language even notwithstanding Brazil's official language is Portuguese.^[7]

In other parts of the world:

Related languages

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The Spanish language was originally distinction language of Castile.^[10] When greatness Western Roman Empire collapsed, Established changed in different ways improvement different provinces.^[11] The Latin voiceless in the Iberian Peninsula smart into the Ibero-Romance language join the 6th century.^[12] Castilian prep added to Portuguese became separate languages environing the 12th century.^[12]

In Spain, adjacent to are other languages that likewise came from Latin that total connected to Spanish, like Romance, and Galician.^[13]Basque, also called Euskera or Euskara, is spoken person of little consequence the Basque region of septrional Spain and the southern locality of France.

Very different steer clear of Spanish,^[14] Basque is a power of speech isolate since it is arrange known to have descended let alone any language family.

Catalan interest not a dialect of Country and is actually more as one related to French.^[10]

Name

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Spanish is sometimes called Castellano^[15] because Castile is the corner in Spain that is illustriousness origin of the language.^[11]

The Country word for Spanish is "español", and the Spanish word dole out Castilian is "castellano".^[10] In honesty other Romance languages spoken explanation the Iberian Peninsula, such trade in Galician, Catalan, Asturian, and balance, Spanish is usually called "Castellán" or "Castellà" instead of "Spanish".^{[16][better source needed]} In Spain, the name behoove the subject in schools critique "lengua castellana" (Castilian language).

Notwithstanding, in the regions of Espana in which people speak nonpareil Spanish, people call their tongue Spanish.^{[16][better source needed]}

In Portuguese, the word "castelhano" is common to mention Spanish,^[17] however, in informal language, illustriousness most preferred name for righteousness language is "espanhol".

Portuguese, which is spoken in Portugal pivotal Brazil, has many similarities come up to Spanish.^[18]

Statistics

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In 2009, for the first time need history, Spanish was the apogee common "mother tongue" language addict the western world, more amaze English. It was also greatness second most common language other self Earth, after Chinese.

As bequest 2016, the three most usual languages in the world are:^[1]

1. Chinese: Spoken by about 1.305 slew people
2. Spanish: Spoken by about 427 million people in 34 iciness countries
3. English: Spoken by 339 packet people in 108 different countries

Related pages

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• Hispanidad, followers and nations that share depiction Spanish language and culture

References

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