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Spanish (Spanish: español, pronounced "Eh-span-yole", IPA: /espaɲol/), also called Castilian, is a Romance language. It is the most spoken Romance language in the world. As of December 2021, over 489 million people in the world spoke Spanish as their first language.

Launched. May 11, 2001; 22 years ago. ( 2001-05-11) The Spanish Wikipedia (In Spanish: Wikipedia en Español) is a Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia. Started in May 2001, it is the 9th-largest Wikipedia by article count. [1] The Spanish Wikipedia has about 1,862,000 articles.

Thus, Old Spanish bever "to drink", bivir/vivir "to live" become beber, vivir, respectively, following the Latin spelling bibere, vīvere. The Spanish placename Córdoba, often spelled Cordova in Old Spanish (the spelling that prevailed in English until the 20th century), now reflects the spelling used by the city's Roman founders, "Corduba".

The lowercase ñ chair at the Royal Spanish Academy. Real Academia Española/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA The origin of the spelling ñ. In the Middle Ages, copyists and scribes came across a new sound for ...

Spanish Empire. The Spanish Empire, [c] also known sometimes as the Hispanic Monarchy [d] or as the Catholic Monarchy [e] [4] [5] [6] was a colonial empire governed by Spain and its predecessor states between 1492 and 1976. [7] [8] In conjunction with the Portuguese Empire, it was the first empire to usher the European Age of Discovery and ...

Espanola (disambiguation) Hispania, the Roman and Greek name for the Iberian Peninsula. Hispanic, the people, nations, and cultures that have a historical link to Spain. Hispanic (disambiguation) Hispanism. Spain (disambiguation) National and regional identity in Spain. Culture of Spain.

Spanish (About this soundespañol (help·info) or About this soundcastellano (help·info), lit. 'Castilian') is a Romance language that originated in the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with nearly 500 million native speakers, mainly in Spain and the Americas.