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The standard Spanish language is also called Castilian in its original variant, and in order to distinguish it from other languages native to parts of Spain, such as Galician, Catalan, Basque, etc. In its earliest documented form, and up through approximately the 15th century, the language is customarily called Old Spanish .
The following is a sample from Cantar de Mio Cid (lines 330–365), with abbreviations resolved, punctuation (the original has none), and some modernized letters. [15] Below is the original Old Spanish text in the first column, along with the same text in Modern Spanish in the second column and an English translation in the third column.
Spaniards, [a] or Spanish people, are a people native to Spain.Within Spain, there are a number of national and regional ethnic identities that reflect the country's complex history, including a number of different languages, both indigenous and local linguistic descendants of the Roman-imposed Latin language, of which Spanish is the largest and the only one that is official throughout the ...
The Real Academia Española, the institution in charge of regulating the Spanish language, was established in 1713, and its members agreed to simplify spelling, and set j to represent /x/ regardless of the original spelling of the word, and x to represent /ks/.
The Rashi script, originally used to print Judaeo-Spanish An original letter in Haketia, written in 1832. Judaeo-Spanish, also known as Ladino, [249] is a variety of Spanish which preserves many features of medieval Spanish and some old Portuguese and is spoken by descendants of the Sephardi Jews who were expelled from Spain in the 15th century ...
He is a descendant of the original Spanish settlers which later became part of the Baca family of New Mexico. Casimiro Barela (1847–1920), Helped write Colorado's State Constitution. José Francisco Chaves (1833–1904), Military leader, politician, lawyer and rancher from the New Mexico Territory.
A member of the Baca Family of New Mexico, he is a descendant of the original Spanish settlers. Stephen Vincent Benét (1827–1895) Born in Saint Augustine, Florida, he was an officer in the United States Army. His grandfather was a Spanish settler in Florida. William Rose Benét (1886–1950) American poet, writer, and editor. Stephen Vincent ...
The Original Spanish Kitchen was a restaurant on Beverly Boulevard in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, California, US, that became the subject of an urban legend starting in the early 1960s. The restaurant, which opened in 1938, [ 1 ] was a popular eating spot until it closed in September 1961.