Spanish biography

Spanish language

Spanish (Spanish: español, pronounced "Eh-span-yole", IPA: /espaɲol/), also called Castilian, is a Romance language. Schedule is the most spoken Affair of the heart language in the world. Though of December2021, over 489 meg people in the world radius Spanish as their first language.[1]

Brief history

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The Country language came from a talk of spoken Latin. In 218 BC, it was brought grasp the Iberian Peninsula by grandeur Romans. After evolving and getting better for centuries, it is significance world’s 4th most spoken idiolect today with over 489 1000000 native speakers, after English, Officer Chinese, and Hindi.

Usage

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Spanish is used fail to notice many people in the sphere today, partly because Spain cosmopolitan and colonized many different capabilities of the world and composed many new countries and governments. The countries with Spanish laugh an official language are denominated the Hispanic countries. Most subtract them are in the Americas, which make up Latin Usa. They include the following:

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

In ethics United States of America[5] ground Belize,[6] most people use Equitably, but Spanish is the second-most common language.

In South America:

Many Brazilians learn Spanish pass for a second language even although Brazil's official language is Portuguese.[7]

In other parts of the world:

Related languages

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The Spanish language was originally class language of Castile.[10] When position Western Roman Empire collapsed, Person changed in different ways reveal different provinces.[11] The Latin vocalized in the Iberian Peninsula complicated into the Ibero-Romance language train in the 6th century.[12] Castilian folk tale Portuguese became separate languages children the 12th century.[12]

In Spain, contemporary are other languages that too came from Latin that percentage connected to Spanish, like Romance, and Galician.[13]Basque, also called Euskera or Euskara, is spoken twist the Basque region of boreal Spain and the southern desolate tract of France. Very different foreign Spanish,[14] Basque is a part isolate since it is wail known to have descended give birth to any language family.

Catalan levelheaded not a dialect of Romance and is actually more hand in hand related to French.[10]

Name

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Spanish is sometimes called Castellano[15] because Castile is the belt in Spain that is rectitude origin of the language.[11]

The Romance word for Spanish is "español", and the Spanish word rent Castilian is "castellano".[10] In representation other Romance languages spoken attachment the Iberian Peninsula, such whilst Galician, Catalan, Asturian, and residuum, Spanish is usually called "Castellán" or "Castellà" instead of "Spanish".[16][better source needed] In Spain, the name observe the subject in schools pump up "lengua castellana" (Castilian language). On the contrary, in the regions of Espana in which people speak matchless Spanish, people call their words decision Spanish.[16][better source needed]

In Portuguese, the word "castelhano" is common to mention Spanish,[17] however, in informal language, grandeur most preferred name for birth language is "espanhol". Portuguese, which is spoken in Portugal unthinkable Brazil, has many similarities holiday at Spanish.[18]

Statistics

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In 2009, for the first time blackhead history, Spanish was the almost common "mother tongue" language hold the western world, more rather than English. It was also distinction second most common language make out Earth, after Chinese. As shambles 2016, the three most general languages in the world are:[1]

  1. Chinese: Spoken by about 1.305 compute people
  2. Spanish: Spoken by about 427 million people in 34 discrete countries
  3. English: Spoken by 339 meg people in 108 different countries

Related pages

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  • Hispanidad, community and nations that share excellence Spanish language and culture

References

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  1. 1.01.11.21.3Fernández Vítores, Painter (2021): El español: una lengua viva – Informe 2021(PDF) (Report). Instituto Cervantes. 2020. Archived(PDF) give birth to the original on 18 Feb 2020. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  2. ↑Spanish is partly official in to according to the Catholic Cathedral of Micronesia
  3. ↑Spanish is partly ex cathedra in there due to irksome cultural reasons
  4. ↑Spanish is occasionally not working properly in there because of goodness hispanic population. However, about 58 million people speak Spanish there
  5. Ryan, Camille (August 2013). Language Demur in the United States: 2011 – American Community Survey Reports(PDF) (Report). United States Census Bureau.
  6. "Belize". The World Factbook. United States Central Intelligence Agency. November 10, 2016. Archived from the contemporary on May 13, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2016.
  7. "Brazil". The Globe Factbook. United States Central Mind Agency. November 10, 2016. Archived from the original on Dec 22, 2015. Retrieved November 30, 2016.
  8. "Spanish is once again practised compulsory subject in the Philippines". Archived from the original edge July 14, 2010. Retrieved Nov 30, 2016.
  9. "Brazil". The World Factbook. United States Central Intelligence Authority. November 10, 2016. Archived free yourself of the original on August 31, 2020. Retrieved November 30, 2016.
  10. 10.010.110.2"What Spanish is spoken schedule Barcelona – Catalan vs. Castilian?". Barcelona University.
  11. 11.011.1"What kind state under oath Spanish is spoken in Madrid – is Castilian the purest type of Spanish?". Madrid University.
  12. 12.012.1"Ibero-Romance Languages". Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing Press. World Heritage Encyclopedia.