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Some information about the Spanish language
Geographic distribution of the Spanish language
The Spanish language is one of the official ones of the Organization of American States, the United Nations, the Union of South American Nations, and the European Union.
Mexico, with about 106 million first-language and second-language speakers, boasts the largest population of Spanish-speakers in the world. The three following largest Spanish-speaking populations live in Spain, Argentina and Colombia.
At the national level, the Spanish language is the official one of 20 independent nations: Argentina, Bolivia (co-official Quechua and Aymara), Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea (along with French), Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama , Paraguay (along with Guaraní), Peru (co-official Quechua and, in some regions, Aymara), Spain (co-official in some regions with Catalan, Galician and Basque), Uruguay, and Venezuela. The Spanish language is also official (co-official language English) in the commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Although it does not have the official status, Spanish is officially used and formally recognized at the state level, alongside English, in the U.S. state of New Mexico, where nearly half the population can speak Spanish (many of who declare direct descent from Spanish colonists).
The vast majority of its speakers are placed in the Western Hemisphere and Spain.
The non-Spanish speaking regions of America
The Spanish language does not have official recognition in the former British colony of Belize. Nevertheless, Spanish is the native tongue of approximately 40% of the people, and is spoken as a second language by another 15%. Spanish is mostly spoken by Hispanic descendants who have remained in the region since the 17th century. However, the English language is the only official one.
The Spanish language has become progressively more important in Brazil, since its proximity and increased trade with its Spanish-speaking neighbors (for instance, as a member of the Mercosur trading bloc). In 2005, a bill was approved by the National Congress of Brazil and signed into law by the President, that makes Spanish language available as a foreign one in the country's secondary schools. In many border towns and villages (particularly along the Uruguayan-Brazilian border) a mixed language commonly called Portuñol is also spoken.
According to the 2005 census, 42.7 million people are Hispanics in the USA. Around 32 million people (12% of the whole population) aged 5 years or older speak Spanish language at home, maybe because of the heavy immigration from Latin America. Nevertheless, the Spanish language is also the most widely taught foreign one in the USA. This country contains, in total, the world's fifth-largest Spanish speaking population.
Spanish language in Europe
The Spanish language is official in the European Union. In European nations other than Spain, Spanish is spoken in communities in the France, United Kingdom and Germany, and it is considered to be an important language of business communication for those countries as well. Although English is used for official purposes, Spanish language is also spoken widely in Gibraltar,. Likewise, The Spanish language is spoken in Andorra though Catalan is the official one. By means of lexic, Spanish also shares a strong similarity with its sister Romance languages of Portuguese and Italian , and may be mutually intelligible on a small scale with those languages within Italy and Portugal.
Spanish language in Asia
Spanish language was never spoken by the majority of the population in the Philippines, despite having been an official language for over four centuries,. After the US occupation and administration of the islands, its importance fell in the first half of the 20th century. When English language was introduced in the Filipino government system, Spanish stopped being an official language. During the Corazon Aquino administration, Spanish language lost its status in 1987. There were 2,658 native speakers of Spanish, according to the 1990 census. Nevertheless, it is not available the number of Spanish speakers in the ensuing 1995 and 2000 censuses. Moreover, there are over 600,000 native speakers of Chavacano, a Spanish based creole spoken in Cavite and Zamboanga, according to the 2000 census. A lot of Philippine languages have numerous Spanish loanwords..
Spanish language in Africa
In Africa, the Spanish language is spoken in the territories of Peñón de Alhucemas, Isla Perejil, the Chafarinas Islands, Ceuta, Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, Melilla, Western Sahara, and in the Spanish autonomous community of Canary Islands. Small Spanish communities in Western Sahara and some members of Cuban communities of Angola and Nigeria can speak Spanish language. Spanish is an official language along with French in Equatorial Guinea, a small nation of 500,000 people, where it is the most important language. In a former Spanish colony, Morocco, that is also geographically close to Spain, approximately 20,000 people speak Spanish.
Spanish language in Oceania
Among the countries and territories in Oceania, 3,000 inhabitants of Easter Island, a territorial possession of Chile speak Spanish. In Australia, there are approximately 95,000 Spanish speakers, 44,000 of which live in Greater Sydney, according to the 2001 census
The island nations of Palau, Guam, Marshall Islands, Northern Marianas and Federated States of Micronesia all once had speakers of Spanish, since Marianas and Caroline Islands, until late 19th century, were Hispanic colonial possessions, but Spanish has long since been forgotten. The Spanish language now only exists as an influence on the local native ones.
Variations of the Spanish language
Among the regions of Spain and throughout Spanish-speaking America, there are important variations. In Spain the Castilian dialect pronunciation is commonly considered as the national standard, in spite of the characteristic weak pronouns usage called laísmo of this dialect, that is deprecated. For nearly everyone in Spain, "standard Spanish" means "pronouncing everything exactly as it is written", an ideal which does not correspond to any real dialect, although the dialects of the North get the closest to it. In practice, "written Spanish" is the standard way of speaking Spanish in the media for formal speech, "Madrid dialect" (one of the transitional variants between Andalusian and Castilian) for informal speech.
The Spanish language has three second-person singular pronouns: tú, usted, and in some parts of Latin America, vos (the use of this form is known as voseo). In general speaking, tú and vos are informal and used with friends. Usted is generally regarded as the formal address (derived from vuestra merced, "your grace") , and is used as a mark of respect, as when addressing one's elders or strangers.
Vos is used extensively as the main spoken form of the second-person singular pronoun in a lot of nations of Latin America, including Argentina, Costa Rica, the central mountain region of Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay, the Antioquia and Valle del Cauca states of Colombia and the State of Zulia in Venezuela. It is also the standard form used in the media in Argentina, Uruguay, and gradually more in Paraguay. However, the media in other countries with voseo generally still use usted or tú except in advertisements, for example. Vos can also be used regionally in other nations. Depending on region or country , usage can be considered standard or (by better educated speakers) to be unrefined. Between regions, interpersonal situations in which the use of vos is acceptable can also be different noticeably.
Regarding second-person plural pronouns, Spanish forms also differ. For daily use, the Spanish dialects of Latin America have only one form of the second-person plural, ustedes (familiar or formal , since the case may be, though vosotros non-formal usage can sometimes appear in poetry and rethoric or literatic style). There are two forms in Spain— ustedes (formal) and vosotros (familiar). In most of Spain, the pronoun vosotros is the plural form of tú, but in the Americas (and certain southern Spanish cities such as Cádiz or Seville, and in the Canary Islands) this pronoun is replaced with ustedes. It is significant that the use of ustedes for the informal plural "you" in the South of Spain does not follow the usual rule for pronoun-verb agreement; for instance, while the formal form for "you go", ustedes van, uses the third-person plural form of the verb, in Seville or Cádiz the informal form is ustedes vais, using the second-person plural of the verb. However, in the Canary Islands, the usual pronoun-verb agreement is preserved in most cases.
In different Hispanophone countries, some words can be different, even embarrassingly so. Most speakers of Spanish can recognize other Spanish forms, even in places where they are not usually used, but Spaniards generally do not recognise specifically American usages.
The Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy), together with the 21 other national ones, is a strong influence that publishes dictionaries and widely respected grammar and style guides. A standardized form of the language (Standard Spanish) is widely acknowledged for use in literature, academic contexts and the media, due to this influence and for other sociohistorical reasons.
Spanish writing system
Written Spanish uses the Latin alphabet, with the addition of the character "ñ" (eñe),
Pronunciation can be entirely determined from spelling with the exclusion of a very small number of regional terms such as México.