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    The different varieties of the Spanish language spoken in the Americas are distinct from each other as well as from those varieties spoken in the Iberian...
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    spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about...
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    (América Española) is all the Spanish-speaking countries of the Americas. In all of these countries, Spanish is the main language - sometimes sharing official...
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    Madrid's. The Spanish language expanded overseas in the Early Modern period in the wake of the Spanish conquests in the Americas (as well as the Canary Islands)...
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  • American Spanish may refer to: Spanish language in the United States Spanish language in the Americas Mexican Spanish Spanish American, an American with...
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    The Spanish missions in the Americas were Catholic missions established by the Spanish Empire during the 16th to 19th centuries in the period of the Spanish...
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    Spanish is the second most spoken language in the United States. Over 42 million people aged five or older speak Spanish at home. Spanish is also the...
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    The Spanish language in South America varies within the different countries and regions of the continent. The term "South American Spanish" (Spanish: español...
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    The majority of languages of Spain belong to the Romance language family, of which Spanish is the sole one with official status as the national language...
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    The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) after the initial...
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    Iberian Spanish (Spanish: español ibérico), is the set of varieties of the Spanish language spoken in Peninsular Spain. This construct is often framed in opposition...
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    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...
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    The Spanish language is the most commonly spoken language in California after the English language, spoken by 28.18 percent (10,434,308) of the population...
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    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...
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    European Spanish (also called Peninsular Spanish) and the Spanish of the Americas, as well as many different dialect areas both within Spain and within the Americas...
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    Philippine Spanish (Spanish: español filipino or castellano filipino) is the variety of standard Spanish spoken in the Philippines, used primarily by Spanish Filipinos...
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    Judaeo-Spanish or Judeo-Spanish (autonym djudeoespanyol, Hebrew script: גﬞודﬞיאו־איספאנייול‎), also known as Ladino, is a Romance language derived from...
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    The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous...
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    The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. The Americas make up most of the...
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    Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and the United States. At least a thousand different Indigenous languages are spoken in the Americas, where there are also 574 federally...
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    is a secondary language, co-official with Arabic as the primary language. Notes: In Spain, Spanish is the sole official language at the national level...
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    Mexican Spanish (Spanish: español mexicano) is the variety of dialects and sociolects of the Spanish language spoken in the United Mexican States. Mexico...
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  • to Spain Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas Spanish cuisine Spanish history Spanish culture Languages of Spain, the various...
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  • UN Spanish Language Day (Spanish: Día del Idioma Español en las Naciones Unidas) is observed annually on 23 April. The event was established by the UN's...
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  • Spanish-language literature or Hispanic literature is the sum of the literary works written in the Spanish language across the Hispanic world. The principal...
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    The Spanish language has two names: español (English: Spanish) and castellano (English: Castilian). Spanish speakers from different countries or backgrounds...
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  • Portuguese is the third most spoken language of the Americas, and the second most spoken language in South America. It is the sole official language of Brazil...
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    unincorporated territories. Other languages were brought in by people from Europe, Africa, Asia, other parts of the Americas, and Oceania, including multiple...
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    The term Hispanic (Spanish: hispano) refers to people, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or Hispanidad broadly. In some contexts...
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    Spanish creole (Spanish: criollo), or Spanish-based creole language, is a creole language (contact language with native speakers) for which Spanish serves...
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