Spanish

Spanish

Spanish is the official language of Spain and the native language of over 300 million people in the world. Many of those people live in the other countries where Spanish is the official language: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Spanish is also the official language of the commonwealth of Puerto Rico and is widely spoken in several other nations, including Canada, Morocco, the Philippines, and the United States.

The Spanish language originated in the southwest region of Europe known as the Iberian Peninsula. Spanish is a dynamic, ever-developing language. Over the centuries it has adopted and borrowed words and grammatical structures from other language groups. Spanish is one of the world's most widely spoken languages and is the official language of Spain and almost every country in Central and South America. Many people in North America speak it as a first or second language.

Spanish is the official language of the following countries

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Spanish is spoken as a second language in many nations - including the following

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