{"id":1470,"date":"2016-12-01T06:49:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T06:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moverdb.com\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2019-05-14T09:58:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T09:58:35","slug":"castellano-vs-espanol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moverdb.com\/de\/castellano-vs-espanol\/","title":{"rendered":"Karte von \"Castellano\" versus \"Espa\u00f1ol\" f\u00fcr das Spanische"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"694\" height=\"922\" src=\"https:\/\/moverdb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Castellano-Espanol.png\" alt=\"Usage of \"Map of \"Castellano\" versus \"Espa\u00f1ol\" to refer to Spanish\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/moverdb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Castellano-Espanol.png 694w, https:\/\/moverdb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Castellano-Espanol-226x300.png 226w, https:\/\/moverdb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Castellano-Espanol-600x797.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The map above shows how various &#8220;Spanish&#8221; speaking countries refer to their language. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/moverdb.com\/de\/moving-to-the-united-states\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"94\" title=\"Moving to the United States? 2026 Living Costs &amp; Relocation Tips\">US<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/moverdb.com\/de\/moving-to-mexico\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"348\" title=\"Moving to Mexico? 2026 Living Costs &amp; Relocation Tips\">Mexico<\/a>, the Caribbean, <a href=\"https:\/\/moverdb.com\/de\/moving-to-the-philippines\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"376\" title=\"Moving to the Philippines? 2026 Living Costs &amp; Relocation Tips\">Philippines<\/a>, Africa and the majority of Central America the language is known as Espa\u00f1ol (Spanish), whereas in most of South America it is known as Castellano (Castilian). <\/p>\n<p>And of course to make matters more confusing it can be know by either in Span itself. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p> 10 other facts about the &#8220;Spanish&#8221; language:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> It is estimated that over 400 million people speak Spanish making it the 2nd most widely spoken native language, behind Mandarin and just ahead of English.<\/li>\n<li> Brazilians call Spanish, espanhol.<\/li>\n<li> Spanish is the official or national language in <a href=\"https:\/\/moverdb.com\/de\/moving-to-spain\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"266\" title=\"Moving to Spain? 2026 Living Costs &amp; Relocation Tips\">Spain<\/a>, Equatorial <a href=\"https:\/\/moverdb.com\/de\/moving-companies\/moving-companies-guinea\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"231\" title=\"2 Best International Moving Companies in Guinea\">Guinea<\/a>, and 19 countries in the Americas. <\/li>\n<li> In the European Union, Spanish is the mother tongue of 8% of the population, with an additional 7% speaking it as a second language.<\/li>\n<li> While Spanish is largely based on Latin, around 8% of its vocabulary is Arabic in origin.<\/li>\n<li> The first systematic written use of the language happened in Toledo, then capital of the Kingdom of Castile, in the 13th century.<\/li>\n<li> 13% percent of the US population over five years old speaks Spanish at home.<\/li>\n<li> Mexico is the largest Spanish speaking country with over 120 million speakers.<\/li>\n<li> The main grammatical variations between dialects of Spanish involve differing uses of pronouns.\n<li> Spanish is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spanish_dialects_and_varieties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prominent differences of pronunciation<\/a> among dialects of Spanish include:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li> the maintenance or loss of distinction between the phonemes \/\u03b8\/ and \/s\/ (distinci\u00f3n vs. seseo and ceceo);<\/li>\n<li> the maintenance or loss of distinction between phonemes represented orthographically by ll and y (ye\u00edsmo);<\/li>\n<li> the maintenance of syllable-final [s] vs. its weakening to [h] (called aspiration, or more precisely debuccalization), or its loss; and<\/li>\n<li> the tendency, in areas of central Mexico and of the Andean highlands, to reduction (especially devoicing), or loss, of unstressed vowels, mainly when they are in contact with voiceless consonants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Find this post interesting? 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