Spanish

E664

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.

All labels observed (9)

Label Occurrences
Spanish canonical 2,879
Spanish language 139
Castilian Spanish 11

How this entity was disambiguated

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

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3,043)

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

Annobón officialLanguage Spanish
Guaduas officialLanguage Spanish
Curaçao recognizedLanguage Spanish
Oaxaca officialLanguage Spanish
Cochabamba languageMajority Spanish
Maximilian hasLanguageOfUse Spanish
this entity surface form: Spanish language
Imbabura Kichwa influencedBy Spanish
this entity surface form: Spanish language
Imbabura Kichwa hasLoanwordsFrom Spanish
this entity surface form: Spanish language
Guasca hasOfficialLanguage Spanish
Salasaca Kichwa coexistsWith Spanish
this entity surface form: Spanish language
Otavalo Kichwa influencedBy Spanish
this entity surface form: Spanish language
Otavalo Kichwa hasLoanwordsFrom Spanish
this entity surface form: Spanish language
North American Academy of the Spanish Language fieldOfWork Spanish
this entity surface form: Spanish language
Arica language Spanish
Basque hasLoanwordsFrom Spanish
Extremadura officialLanguage Spanish
Pinta crewNationality Spanish
this entity surface form: Castilian
Jaime hasOrigin Spanish
this entity surface form: Spanish language
Kingdom of Spain officialLanguage Spanish
this entity surface form: Castilian Spanish
Kingdom of Spain majorLanguage Spanish
this entity surface form: Spanish language
eastern Mexico hasLanguage Spanish
subject surface form: Eastern Mexico
Mapuche people alsoSpeak Spanish
this entity surface form: Spanish language
Catalan independence movement usesLanguage Spanish
this entity surface form: Spanish language
Mestizo hasLanguage Spanish
this entity surface form: Spanish language
Naomi usedIn Spanish
this entity surface form: Spanish language
Mérida officialLanguage Spanish
Yapese hasLoanwordsFrom Spanish
Nahua contributedLoanwordsTo Spanish
this entity surface form: Spanish language
Guaranda languageSpoken Spanish
Henry IV of Castile languageSpoken Spanish
this entity surface form: Castilian
Malabo officialLanguage Spanish
Tabasco hasOfficialLanguage Spanish
Afro-Cubans language Spanish
this entity surface form: Spanish language
Ndowe coexistsWithLanguage Spanish
Puno languageUsed Spanish
Bayamón officialLanguage Spanish
Urubamba town languageSpoken Spanish
subject surface form: Urubamba
Wargandí officialLanguage Spanish