Spanish

E664

Ibero-Romance language Romance language language

Spanish is a Romance language originating from the Iberian Peninsula that is now one of the world’s most widely spoken languages across Europe, the Americas, and beyond.

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Observed surface forms (8)

Surface form	Occurrences
Spanish language	70
Castilian Spanish	9
Castilian	6
Peninsular Spanish	2
Standard Spanish	2
Castellano	1
Ladino	1
Spanish (Semana Santa)	1

Statements (97)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Ibero-Romance language ⓘ Romance language ⓘ language ⓘ
alternativeName	Spanish ⓘ surface form: Castilian
developedFrom	Old Spanish ⓘ Vulgar Latin ⓘ
hasApproximateNumberOfSpeakers	over 480 million native speakers ⓘ over 580 million total speakers ⓘ
hasCommonLoanwordsFrom	Arabic ⓘ Basque ⓘ English ⓘ French ⓘ Indigenous American languages ⓘ Italian ⓘ
hasDigitalLanguageCode	es-ES ⓘ es-MX ⓘ
hasGrammaticalFeature	agreement in gender and number ⓘ grammatical gender ⓘ pro-drop pronoun system ⓘ two copular verbs ser and estar ⓘ use of definite and indefinite articles ⓘ use of subjunctive mood ⓘ verb conjugation by person and number ⓘ
hasMajorDialect	Andalusian Spanish ⓘ Canarian Spanish ⓘ Caribbean Spanish ⓘ Spanish self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Castilian Spanish Central American Spanish ⓘ Chilean Spanish ⓘ Colombian Spanish ⓘ Equatoguinean Spanish ⓘ Mexican Spanish ⓘ Rioplatense Spanish ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	five-vowel system ⓘ
hasRegulatingBody	Association of Academies of the Spanish Language ⓘ Royal Spanish Academy ⓘ
hasSpecialCharacter	ñ ⓘ
hasStandardForm	Spanish self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Standard Spanish
hasTypicalWordOrder	SVO ⓘ
hasWritingDirection	left-to-right ⓘ
ISO639-1Code	es ⓘ
ISO639-2Code	spa ⓘ
ISO639-3Code	spa ⓘ
isOfficialLanguageOf	African Union (working language) ⓘ Argentina ⓘ Bolivia ⓘ Chile ⓘ Colombia ⓘ Community of Latin American and Caribbean States ⓘ Costa Rica ⓘ Cuba ⓘ Dominican Republic ⓘ Ecuador ⓘ El Salvador ⓘ Equatorial Guinea ⓘ European Union ⓘ Guatemala ⓘ Honduras ⓘ Mexico ⓘ Nicaragua ⓘ Organization of American States ⓘ Panama ⓘ Paraguay ⓘ Peru ⓘ Puerto Rico ⓘ Spain ⓘ Union of South American Nations ⓘ United Nations ⓘ Uruguay ⓘ Venezuela ⓘ Equatorial Guinea ⓘ surface form: Western Sahara
isOfficialMinorityLanguageIn	Andorra ⓘ Belize ⓘ Gibraltar ⓘ Philippines ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
isTaughtAsForeignLanguageIn	many countries worldwide ⓘ
isWidelySpokenIn	Caribbean ⓘ Central America ⓘ Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ parts of Africa ⓘ parts of Asia ⓘ
isWorldLanguage	true ⓘ
languageFamily	Ibero-Romance languages ⓘ Indo-European language family ⓘ surface form: Indo-European languages Italic languages ⓘ Romance languages ⓘ Western Romance languages ⓘ
nativeName	castellano ⓘ español ⓘ
originatedIn	Iberian Peninsula ⓘ
rankedByNumberOfNativeSpeakers	among the top three languages in the world ⓘ
usesDiacritics	acute accent ⓘ diaeresis ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ

Referenced by (209)

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

Mapuche people → alsoSpeak → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish language

Spanish → alternativeName → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Castilian

Chair O → associatedWith → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish language

Chair S → associatedWith → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish language

Chair V → associatedWith → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish language

Chair W → associatedWithLanguage → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish language

Chair Z → associatedWithLanguage → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish language

Aragonese language → closelyRelatedTo → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish language

Italian language → closelyRelatedTo → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish language

Portuguese language → closelyRelatedTo → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish language

Bay Islands English → coexistsWith → Spanish ⓘ

Guinean Pidgin English → coexistsWith → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish language

Pichi language → coexistsWith → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish language

Salasaca Kichwa → coexistsWith → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish language

Equatoguinean Pidgin English → coexistsWithLanguage → Spanish ⓘ

Ndowe → coexistsWithLanguage → Spanish ⓘ

Equatoguinean Spanish → comparedWith → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Peninsular Spanish

Kiliwa language → contactLanguage → Spanish ⓘ

Canarian Spanish → contrastsWith → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Castilian Spanish

Nahua → contributedLoanwordsTo → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish language

Pinta → crewNationality → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Castilian

Equatoguinean Spanish → developedFrom → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Peninsular Spanish

Equatoguinean Spanish → developedFrom → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Castilian Spanish

Paipai language → dominantContactLanguage → Spanish ⓘ

Trastámaran → ethnicGroup → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Castilian

Cajun → ethnicOrigin → Spanish ⓘ

Serrano people → exonymLanguage → Spanish ⓘ

Ramón José Castellano → familyName → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Castellano

Chair R → fieldOfOccupant → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish language

North American Academy of the Spanish Language → fieldOfWork → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish language

Belmopan → hasCommonLanguage → Spanish ⓘ

Miskito → hasContactLanguage → Spanish ⓘ

Antillean Creole → hasInfluenceFrom → Spanish ⓘ

Equatoguinean Pidgin English → hasInfluenceFrom → Spanish ⓘ

eastern Mexico → hasLanguage → Spanish ⓘ

subject surface form: Eastern Mexico

Guatemala Highlands → hasLanguage → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish language

Little Village → hasLanguage → Spanish ⓘ

Mestizo → hasLanguage → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish language

northern Spain → hasLanguage → Spanish ⓘ

subject surface form: Northern Spain

Universal Decimal Classification → hasLanguage → Spanish ⓘ

Corisco → hasLanguageCurrentlySpoken → Spanish ⓘ

Sotavento → hasLanguageInfluence → Spanish ⓘ

Alexis → hasLanguageOfUse → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish language

Christina → hasLanguageOfUse → Spanish ⓘ

Maximilian → hasLanguageOfUse → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish language

Nicholas → hasLanguageOfUse → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish language

Priscilla → hasLanguageOfUse → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish language

Spanish-speaking world → hasLanguageVariant → Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Castilian Spanish

Florida → hasLargeLanguageCommunity → Spanish ⓘ

Huastec → hasLexicalBorrowingFrom → Spanish ⓘ