| Spanish | |
| General Information | |
| Native name: | Español; Castellano |
| Writing system: | Latin (Spanish Alphabet) |
| Language family: | Indo-European Italic Romance Western Romance Ibero-Romance West Iberian |
| ISO 639-1: | es |
| Speakers | |
| First language: | 410 million |
| Second language: | 90 million |
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Spanish is a Western Romance language.
Geographic Distribution[]
- Africa: Equatorial Guinea
- America: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela
- Europe: Spain
Phonology[]
Consonants[]
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||
| Stop | p | b | t | d | tʃ | ʝ | k | ɡ | ||
| Continuant | f | θ* | s | (ʃ)** | x | |||||
| Lateral | l | ʎ* | ||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||
*Preserved only in some dialects. In most dialects they have been merged, respectively, with /s/ and /ʝ/.
**Appears only in loanwords.
Vowels[]
