Spanish Language Detailed Profile
The following pages go into more detail on the Spanish Language itself and give details about where it’s spoken, it’s history and other details which I think might be interesting.
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is an Indo-European, Romance language that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade. It was taken to Africa, the Americas, and Asia Pacific with the expansion of the Spanish Empire between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Today, between 322 and 400 million people speak Spanish as a native language, making it the world’s second or third most-spoken language by native speakers, depending on the sources.
The most spoken Spanish by total number of speakers is spoken in Mexico (Mexican Spanish) since it has the world’s largest Spanish-speaking population with almost twice the population of the next largest Spanish-speaking population and almost a third of the total native Spanish speakers around the world.
Source: Wikipedia
Subpages of this page:
- History of the Spanish Language
- Origin of the Name of the Spanish Language
- Spanish Language Dialects and Differences
- Written Spanish | Spanish Orthography
