The Spanish language is the second-most commonly spoken language in California, after the English language, spoken by 28.18 percent (10,434,308) of the...

largest ethnicity in California. Californios (regional Californian Spanish for "Californians") is a term to refer to the Californian Hispanic community...

second-language speakers. Spanish is the official language of 20 countries, as well as one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Spanish is the world's...

Spanish is the second most spoken language in the United States. Over 43.4 million people aged five or older speak Spanish at home (13.7%). Spanish is...

The Spanish missions in California (Spanish: Misiones españolas en California) formed a series of 21 religious outposts or missions established between...

Spanish was the sole official language of the Philippines throughout its more than three centuries of Spanish rule, from the late 16th century to 1898...

indigenous languages of Mexico that are spoken among California farmworkers. Over 200 languages are known to be spoken and read in California, with Spanish used...

since 1888, Spanish is spoken by most people in Easter Island along with Rapa Nui language. Language politics in Francoist Spain declared Spanish as the only...

Spanish in certain regions. In Peru, Spanish is the sole official language at the national level, while Quechua and Aymara hold co-official status in...

Presidio of Monterey (POM), located in Monterey, California, is an active US Army installation with historic ties to the Spanish colonial era. Currently, it is...

or Judezmo or Spaniolit, is a Romance language derived from Castilian Old Spanish. Originally spoken in Spain, and then after the Edict of Expulsion...

California's cultural landscape and history. Spanish was the official administrative language of California through the Spanish and Mexican eras, until 1848. Following...

Las Californias was a remote, sparsely settled Spanish province of the viceroyalty of New Spain. In 1822, following Mexican independence, California became...

Spanish language spoken in the Americas are distinct from each other, as well as from those varieties spoken in the Iberian Peninsula and the Spanish...

Mono. The Western Mono language has a number of Spanish loanwords dating to the period of Spanish colonization of the Californias, as well as loanwords...

Spanish bilingual education in California is the incorporation of the Spanish and English language to teach various subjects in primary education. Proposition...

of the words "Spanish" and "English") is any language variety (such as a contact dialect, hybrid language, pidgin, or creole language) that results from...

Mexican Spanish (Spanish: español mexicano) is the variety of dialects and sociolects of the Spanish language spoken in Mexico and its bordering regions...

territories speak their own native languages or (in Puerto Rico) Spanish. Over the course of its history, many languages have been brought into what is today...

speak the languages such as French, Spanish or German. In an April 30 issue of the Hollywood Filmograph, it was declared that Spanish-language films were...

The Californias (Spanish: Las Californias), occasionally known as the Three Californias or the Two Californias, are a region of North America spanning...

Mexican Spanish (Spanish: español neomexicano), or New Mexican and Southern Colorado Spanish refers to certain traditional varieties of Spanish spoken in the...

(1542–1769), the Spanish colonial period (1769–1821), the Mexican period (1821–1848), and United States statehood (September 9, 1850–present). California was one...

The Spanish began their long-term occupation in California in 1769 with the founding of Mission San Diego de Alcalá in San Diego. The Spanish built...

Human history in California began when indigenous Americans first arrived some 13,000 years ago. Coastal exploration by the Spanish began in the 16th century...

and derivations in Spanish, plus a few other less obvious effects. The Spanish language, also called Castilian, is a Romance language that evolved from...

Multiple theories regarding the origin of the name California, as well as the root language of the term, have been proposed, but most historians believe...

The Yuman–Cochimí languages are a family of languages spoken in Baja California, northern Sonora, southern California, and western Arizona. Cochimí is...

California, as well as east to Florida. To the southeast, beyond the deserts and the Colorado River, lay the Spanish settlements in Arizona. Spanish soldiers...

Spanish is a Romance language which developed from Vulgar Latin in central areas of the Iberian Peninsula and has absorbed many loanwords from other Romance...