Continents That Speak Spanish

Europe

Africa

Central America

South America

Carribbean

worldInformation:

In this website students will be able to learn what continents speak Spanish and how the Spanish language came to that particular continent.

Interesting Facts:

1. With 329 million native speakers, Spanish ranks as the world's No. 2 language in terms of how many people speak it as their first language. It is slightly ahead of English (328 million) but far behind Chinese (1.2 billion).

2. Spanish has at least 3 million native speakers each in 44 countries, making it the fourth mostly geographically widely spoken language behind English (112 countries), French (60) and Arabic (57).

3. Spanish is one of the world's most phonetic languages. If you know how a word is spelled, you can almost always know how it is pronounced (although the reverse isn't true). The main exception is recent words of foreign origin, which usually retain their original spelling.

4. Although Spanish originated on the Iberian Peninsula as a descendant of Latin, today it is has far more speakers in Latin America, having been brought to the New World by Spanish colonialization.

5. Spanish and English share much of their vocabulary through cognates, as both languages derive many of their words from Latin and Arabic.

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History of Spanish Language around the world link