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Name:
Spanish
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Castilian; Español; Castellano; Spanisch; Castillan
Spoken in:
Jamaica, Mexico, USA, Uruguay, Aruba, Belgium, Belize, Cuba, Spain, Finland, Sweden, Australia, Chile, U.S. Virgin Islands, Ecuador, France, Gibraltar, Paraguay, El Salvador, Venezuela, Germany, Israel, Nicaragua, Philippines, Equatorial Guinea, Cayman Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Norway, Canada, Colombia, Panama, Puerto Rico, Netherlands Antilles, Bolivia, Switzerland, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Morocco, Peru, Andorra, Argentina
Number of speakers:
28,200,000 in Spain (1986). Population total all countries: 328,518,810
(Ethnologue)
Code:
spa
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Language:
Old Spanish; Old Castillian (osp)
Child Dialects:
Murcian (spa-mur)
Canary Islands Spanish; Spanish (Canary Islands); Isleño (spa-can)
American Spanish; Chicano (spa-ame)
Navarrese (spa-nav)
Andalusian; Andalú; Andaluz; Andalusí (spa-and)
Castilian (spa-cas)
Aragonese (spa-ara)

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