English: Spoken by 339 million people in 108 different countries.Spanish: Spoken by about 427 million people in 34 different countries.Chinese: Spoken by about 1.305 billion people.As of 2016, the three most common languages in the world are: It was also the second most common language on Earth, after Chinese. In 2009, for the first time in history, Spanish was the most common "mother tongue" language of the western world, more than English. Portuguese, which is spoken in Portugal and Brazil, has many similarities to Spanish. In Portuguese, the word "castelhano" is common to mention Spanish, however, in informal language, the most preferred name for the language is "espanhol". However, in the regions of Spain in which people speak only Spanish, people call their language Spanish. In Spain, the name of the subject in schools is "lengua castellana" (Castilian language). In the other Romance languages spoken on the Iberian Peninsula, such as Galician, Catalan, Asturian, and others, Spanish is usually called "Castellán" or "Castellà" instead of "Spanish". The Spanish word for Spanish is "español", and the Spanish word for Castilian is "castellano". Castile is the region that is considered to speak the most proper form of Spanish. Spanish is sometimes called Castilian because Castile is the region in Spain that is the origin of the language. Very different from Spanish, Basque is a language isolate since it is not known to have descended from any language family.Ĭatalan is not a dialect of Spanish and is actually more closely related to French. Basque, also called Euskera or Euskara, is spoken in the Basque region of northern Spain and the southern region of France. In Spain, there are other languages that also came from Latin that are connected to Spanish, like Catalan, and Galician. Castilian and Portuguese became separate languages around the 12th century. The Latin spoken in the Iberian Peninsula developed into the Ibero-Romance language in the 6th century. When the Western Roman Empire collapsed, Latin changed in different ways in different provinces. The Spanish language was originally the language of Castile. Many Brazilians learn Spanish as a second language even though Brazil's official language is Portuguese. In the United States and Belize, most people use English, but Spanish is the second-most common language. In North America, Central America, and the Caribbean Islands:
Most of them are in the Americas, which make up Latin America. The countries with Spanish as an official language are called the Hispanic countries. Spanish is used by many people in the world today, partly because Spain traveled and colonized many different parts of the world and created many new countries and governments. At the beginning of 218 BC, it was brought to the Iberian Peninsula by the Romans, and after evolving and improving for centuries, today with over 489 million native speakers, it is the world’s 4th most spoken language, after English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindi.
The language Spanish or previously known as Castilian is originally adopted from a dialect of spoken Latin.
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