Modern Spanish

E320611

Modern Spanish is the contemporary standardized form of the Spanish language, widely spoken across Spain and Latin America and serving as one of the world’s major global languages.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Modern Spanish canonical 6
Standard Spanish 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (75)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Ibero-Romance language
Romance language
global language
standardized language
developedFrom Old Spanish
Vulgar Latin
follows Classical Spanish
Old Spanish
hasAlternativeSecondPersonSingular vos
hasDictionaryStandard Diccionario de la lengua española
hasGrammaticalFeature clitic pronouns
gendered nouns
rich verb conjugation
subject–verb–object word order
use of subjunctive mood
hasOrthographicStandard Ortografía de la lengua española
hasPhonologicalFeature five-vowel system
phonemic stress
yeísmo in many dialects
hasRegulatingBody Association of Academies of the Spanish Language
Royal Spanish Academy
hasSecondPersonPluralForms ustedes
vosotros
hasStandardForm Andalusian Spanish
Caribbean Spanish
Peninsular Spanish
surface form: Castilian Spanish

Chilean Spanish
Colombian Spanish
Equatoguinean Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Mexican Spanish
Andean Spanish
surface form: Peruvian Spanish

Rioplatense Spanish
hasT-VDistinction tú–usted
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
ISO639-1Code es
ISO639-2Code spa
isOfficialEULanguage true
isOfficialUNLanguage true
languageBranch Romance languages
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
officialLanguageOf Argentina
Bolivia
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Puerto Rico
Spain
Uruguay
Venezuela
Spanish Sahara
surface form: Western Sahara
subclassOf Spanish
surface form: Spanish language
usedAsLanguageOf education
international diplomacy
mass media
trade
usedAsLinguaFrancaIn Latin America
usedIn Equatorial Guinea
Latin America
Philippines
Spain
United States of America
surface form: United States
writingDirection left-to-right

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Haketia influencedBy Modern Spanish
Paisa Spanish mutuallyIntelligibleWith Modern Spanish
this entity surface form: Standard Spanish
Old Spanish followedBy Modern Spanish
Old Spanish developsInto Modern Spanish
Western Romance hasStandardLanguage Modern Spanish
this entity surface form: Standard Spanish
Valencian Spanish influencedBy Modern Spanish
this entity surface form: Standard Spanish
Early Modern Spanish precedes Modern Spanish
Early Modern Spanish developedInto Modern Spanish
CORDE corpus covers Modern Spanish