![]() In the years that followed, it became the language of the Spanish Empire in the New World, which is why you may hear some people refer to Spanish as ‘castellano’ instead of ‘español’. By the 15th century, Castilian Spanish had become the dominant dialect in the whole peninsula. ![]() Castilian Spanish: It developed from Latin after the Roman conquest of what is today Spain.European Spanish can be subdivided into the below: Believe it or not, there are actually different types of Spanish spoken in Spain. Some people refer to it also as ‘Peninsular Spanish’ or ‘Spanish of Spain’. European Spanish: This is a broad term that refers to Spanish spoken in continental Spain and the Spanish islands.Other Spanish dialects are also present in the US territory, such as the ones spoken in the eastern coastal states and the variety named by some linguists as New Mexican Spanish (present in New Mexico and a few regions of the state of Colorado).Ĥ1 million native Spanish speakers live in the United States of America, and they speak a variety of different dialects of Spanish. Nowadays, the US speech community speaks mainly Mexican Spanish, largely due to the huge number of Mexicans that have migrated to the United States during the past two centuries. ![]() The Spanish language has been present in the United States since the 15th century with the arrival of Spanish colonizers. US Spanish: Did you know that the US has more Spanish speakers than Spain? That’s right! An astounding 41 million native Spanish speakers, and more than 52 million can speak the language (if we count non-native speakers).Even though regional differences between Spanish dialects are not as great as to cause unintelligibility among speakers from different areas, it is possible to divide the world’s Spanish varieties into a few major groups:
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