Spanish (español) also called Castilian (castellano About this sound listen ) is a Romance language that originated in Castile a region of Spain. Approximately 406 million people speak Spanish as a native language making it second only to Mandarin in terms of its number of native speakers worldwide. It also has 60 million speakers as a second language and 20 million students as a foreign language.
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es
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spa
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spa
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Italic languages, Romance languages, Iberian Romance languages, Western Romance languages
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