| Spanish | … |
|---|---|
| Castilian | … |
| • español • castellano | … |
| Pronunciation | [espaˈɲol] [kasteˈʎano] (pron. with yeísmo: [kasteˈʝano]) |
| Native to | Spain, Hispanic America, Equatorial Guinea |
| Speakers | L1: 519 million (2025)1 L2: 117 million (2025) Total: 636 million (2025) |
| Language family | Indo-European • Italic • Latino-Faliscan • Latin • Romance • Italo-Western • Western Romance • Gallo - Iberian ? • Ibero-Romance • West Iberian • Castilian 2 3 • Spanish |
| Early forms | Vulgar Latin • Proto-Romance • Old Spanish • Early Modern Spanish |
| Writing system | Latin script (Spanish alphabet) Spanish Braille |
| Signed forms | Signed Spanish (using signs of the local language) |
| Official status | … |
| Official language in | • 21 countries , 1 dependent territory , and 1 partially recognized country • Organizations including the AU , CAN , ACS , CARICOM , CELAC , EU , ALADI , Parlatino , Mercosur , OSCE , OAS , UN , USAN , OEI and WTO |
| Regulated by | Association of Spanish Language Academies |
| Language codes | … |
| ISO 639-1 | es |
| ISO 639-2 | spa |
| ISO 639-3 | spa |
| Glottolog | stan1288 |
| Linguasphere | 51-AAA-b |
| Official majority language Co-official or administrative language but not majority native language Secondary language (more than 20% Spanish speakers) or culturally important | … |
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Footnotes
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“El Español en el mundo” (PDF). Instituto Cervantes. 2025. ↩
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Eberhard, Simons & Fennig (2020) ↩
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Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2022). “Castilic”. Glottolog 4.6. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Archived from the original on 28 May 2022. Retrieved 19 June 2022. ↩