Spanish
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 Spanish pages
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| Introduction · Numbers · Syntax · Verbs |
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| Latino-Faliscan | Faliscan | ||||
 Latin
| Italo-Dalmatian |  Corsican,  Dalmatian,  Istriot,  Italian,  Neapolitan,  Sicilian
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| Eastern Romance |  Moldovan,  Romanian
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| Southern Romance |  Sardian,
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| Western Romance | Pyrenean-Mozarabic | Aragonese, Mozarabic | |||
| Gallo-Iberian | Langues d'oïl |  French
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| Occitano-Romance | |||||
| Gallo-Italian | |||||
| Ibero-Romance | West Iberian |  Galician,  Leonese, Spanish,  Portuguese
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| East Iberian |  Catalan
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| Rhaeto-Romance |  Friulian,  Ladin,  Romansh
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| Oscan | Sabine, South Picene, Oscan | ||||
| Umbrian | Aequian, Marsian, Umbrian, Volscian | ||||
| Vestinian | Vestinian | ||||
An Introduction to the Language
Spanish or Castilian (español or castellano) is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that originated in northern Spain and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile, evolving into the principal language of government and trade in the Iberian peninsula.
Family
Indo-European
- Italic
- Romance
- Italo-Western
- Western
- Gallo-Iberian
- Ibero-Romance
- West-Iberian
- Spanish, Castilian
- West-Iberian
- Ibero-Romance
- Gallo-Iberian
- Western
- Italo-Western
- Romance
Spoken in
Spanish is an official language in Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Columbia, Chile and several other countries. In addition, roughly 34 million people in the United States speak Spanish, though the language has no official status there. It is an official language of the United Nations. It is spoken as a native language by 329 million people.
