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  2. Most common words in Spanish - Wikipedia

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    Below are two estimates of the most common words in Modern Spanish.Each estimate comes from an analysis of a different text corpus.A text corpus is a large collection of samples of written and/or spoken language, that has been carefully prepared for linguistic analysis.

  3. Spanish colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    It is estimated that during the period 1492–1832, a total of 1.86 million Spaniards settled in the Americas, and a further 3.5 million immigrated during the post-independence era (1850–1950); the estimate is 250,000 in the 16th century and most during the 18th century, as immigration was encouraged by the new Bourbon dynasty. [6]

  4. Spanish language in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Spanish is also the most learned language other than English, [3] with about 8 million students. Estimates count up to 58.9 million native speakers, heritage language speakers, and second-language speakers. [4] [5] [6] There is an Academy of the Spanish Language located in the United States as well. [7]

  5. List of languages by total number of speakers - Wikipedia

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    Spanish (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Romance: 486 million 74 million 560 million Modern Standard Arabic (excl. dialects) Afro-Asiatic: Semitic: 0 [a] 332 million 332 million French (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Romance: 74 million 238 million 312 million Bengali: Indo-European: Indo-Aryan: 237 million 41 million 278 million ...

  6. Spanish language - Wikipedia

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    Spanish is the primary language in 20 countries worldwide. As of 2023, it is estimated that about 486 million people speak Spanish as a native language, making it the second most spoken language by number of native speakers. [30]

  7. Influences on the Spanish language - Wikipedia

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    Spanish is a Romance language which developed from Vulgar Latin in central areas of the Iberian Peninsula and has absorbed many loanwords from other Romance languages like French, Occitan, Catalan, Portuguese, and Italian. [1] Spanish also has lexical influences from Arabic and from Paleohispanic languages such as Iberian, Celtiberian and Basque.

  8. Spanish language in science and technology - Wikipedia

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    [A] [2] One estimate puts the percentage of Spanish language publications in natural sciences and technology as 0.5% of the world total, [B] a low number since Spanish is often considered to rank second or third among languages in various other metrics and estimates. [4] In the humanities a similar estimate yields 2.81%. [4]

  9. Spanish diaspora - Wikipedia

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    Spanish immigration to Mexico began in 1519 and spans to the present day. [34] The first Spanish settlement was established in February 1519, as a result of the landing of Hernán Cortés in the Yucatán Peninsula, accompanied by about 11 ships, 500 men, 13 horses and a small number of cannons. [35]