Also known as
  • Spanish language,
  • Castillian,
  • Castellano,
  • Castilian
Spanish or Castilian (castellano) is an Indo-European, Romance language that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade. It was taken to Africa, the Americas, and Asia Pacific with the expansion of the Spanish Empire between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. Today, between 322 and 400 million people speak Spanish as a native language,Universidad de México< making it the world's second most... full article at wikipedia
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Last edited by foreign_name_bot Sep 12, 2008
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