Did you know that Spanish is the second most widely spoken language in the world, second only to Mandarin Chinese? There are million native speakers of Spanish, and interestingly, Spanish has official status in 21 countries including Africa, Europe, and South, Central, and North America. The answer to the above question is: There are ten major Spanish dialects.
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Today, these languages are legitimate and accepted means of communication respected by the entire Spanish community. Login Register. Languages in Spain Spain is a country with a rich linguistic diversity. World-wide million people speak Spanish, also called Castellano, and it is the 4th most spoken language in the world.
The language has a rich heritage and over many centuries of evolution people had been developing many variations of the language that still exist today.
Castellano is the official national language of Spain. Nevertheless, there are other co-official or unofficial languages spoken according to the cultural diversity of the Spanish regions that form an important part of the Spanish cultural patrimony. Nowadays 16 different languages official and unofficial are spoken on the Iberian Peninsula and the 11 islands that are an important part of the country.
Here are the languages listed and ranked by the number of speakers in descending order:. Castilian: As mentioned above it is the official language of Spain and over 45 million people in Spain speak it.
It is also the dominant language in every part of Spain, even when they are multilingual. Catalan: Catalan is a Romance language named for its origins in Catalonia, in what is northeastern Spain and adjoining parts of France. It is spoken by 4. Its an official language of the region Galicia in the north-west corner of Spain next to Portugal.
Gallego , as the language is called in Spanish, is spoken by 2. The language is close to the Portuguese language, because Galicia and Portugal were united during the medieval times. It is an official language in the region around the city Valencia and is spoken by 2 million people. It is the language spoken in the Valencian Community in Spain and the name used to refer to the Catalan in that area. In the Valencian Community, Valencian is the traditional language and is co-official with Spanish.
The language is spoken by In compare to all other languages in Europe that belong to a family of languages Indo-Germanic, Uralic, Turkic or Semitic language , Vasco has no generic relation to any other language. That is why Vasco called an isolated language. It is the collective name for the dialects of Catalan spoken in the Balearic Islands and it is spoken by
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