castellano, español
Native Speakers: 442 million; L2 Speakers: 70.6 million
Iberian Peninsula (Spain); Central & South America; Africa
Official: Mexico, Colombia, Spain, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Cuba, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Paraguay, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Panama, Uruguay, Equatorial Guineau
Indo-European, Romance
Fusional (inflected) language with a subject-verb-object (SVO) word order. Noun and adjective systems include two numbers and two genders. Approximately 50 conjugated forms per verb, and verbs display T-V distinction. Syntax is right-branching.
Phonological, grammatical, and lexical variations between forms spoken in Spain and Latin America, although all are generally mutually intelligible. Mexican Spanish is the variety with the most speakers (112 million), followed by Colombia and Spain. One of the key differences between Castilian and Latin American Spanish is in the 2nd person plural pronoun (vosotros vs. ustedes) and the use of the 2nd person singular pronoun vos in Latin America, which has fallen out of use in Spain.
Latin script
Approximately 50 million native speakers, heritage language speakers, and second language speakers, making Spanish the second most widely spoken language in the United States (after English) and the second largest Spanish speaking population in the world (after Spanish). Spanish is also the most widely taught foreign language in U.S. schools.
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