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2 days ago · Spanish is the world's second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's fourth-most spoken language overall after English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance language.
- History of Spain
The history of Spain dates to contact between the pre-Roman...
- Spanish orthography
Spanish orthography is the orthography used in the Spanish...
- Spanish language in the United States
Spanish has been spoken in what is now the United States...
- History of Spain
1 day ago · The history of Spain dates to contact between the pre-Roman peoples of the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula made with the Greeks and Phoenicians. During Classical Antiquity, the peninsula was the site of multiple successive colonizations of Greeks, Carthaginians, and Romans. Native peoples of the peninsula, such as the Tartessos ...
4 days ago · Spanish orthography is the orthography used in the Spanish language. The alphabet uses the Latin script.
3 days ago · The Spanish Empire, [b] sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy [c] or the Catholic Monarchy, [d] [4] [5] [6] was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. [7] [8] In conjunction with the Portuguese Empire, it ushered in the European Age of Discovery. It achieved a global scale, [9] controlling vast portions of the Americas ...
Jun 21, 2024 · Spanish emerged from a combination of Indo-European languages that came to the Iberian Peninsula via migrants from the Black Sea region, and the introduction of Vulgar Latin, the spoken language of the colonizing Romans in the territory that is modern day Spain.
2 days ago · Spanish has been spoken in what is now the United States since the 15th century, with the arrival of Spanish colonization in North America. Colonizers settled in areas that would later become Florida, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California as well as in what is now the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
3 days ago · Spain, country located in extreme southwestern Europe. It occupies about 85 percent of the Iberian Peninsula, which it shares with its smaller neighbor Portugal. Spain is a storied country of stone castles, snowcapped mountains, vast monuments, and sophisticated cities.
