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Ñ-shaped animation showing flags of some countries and territories where Spanish is spoken. Spanish is the official language (either by law or de facto) in 20 sovereign states (including Equatorial Guinea, where it is official but not a native language), one dependent territory, and one partially recognized state, totaling around 442 million people.
In Spain and some other parts of the Spanish-speaking world, Spanish is called not only español but also castellano (Castilian), the language from the Kingdom of Castile, contrasting it with other languages spoken in Spain such as Galician, Basque, Asturian, Catalan/Valencian, Aragonese, Occitan and other minor languages.
Hong Kong (for Chinese language, Cantonese is spoken de facto; co-official with English) Macau (for Chinese language, Cantonese is spoken de facto; co-official with Portuguese) Catalan: parts of Spain Balearic Islands (with Spanish) Catalonia (with Spanish) Valencia (named as Valencian, with Spanish) parts of France Pyrénées Orientales; parts ...
2 Spanish; Guaraní; Peru: 1 Spanish Quechua, Aymara and another native languages are official wherever they predominate Philippines: 2 Filipino; English; Aklanon (in the Visayas) Bikol (in Luzon) Cebuano (in the Visayas and Mindanao) Chavacano (in Mindanao) Hiligaynon (in the Visayas) Ibanag (in Luzon) Ilocano (in Luzon, official in La Union ...
Ecuador defines Spanish as its official language, but Spanish, Quechua and Shuar – as official languages of intercultural relations in the Article 2 of the 2008 Constitution. [145] Falkland Islands, English is the official & dominant language. Spanish is spoken by a minority of the population who comes from Chile and Argentina.
Official language Switzerland: Europe 8,619,259 [7] Co-official language with German, French, and Romansh Croatia: Europe 208,055 Istria County Slovenia: Europe 93,089 Slovene Istria San Marino: Europe 33,607 [8] Official language Vatican City: Europe 825 [9] Co-official language with Latin: Total 69,153,468
Spanish (sometimes called Castilian) is the only official language of the entire country and is spoken habitually and as a native language among a vast majority of the Spanish population. Spain is, along with Colombia [ 4 ] and after Mexico and the United States, [ 5 ] ranked third in the world as the country with the most Spanish speakers .
2 Number of official languages. 3 See also. 4 Notes. ... Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world. [2] [3] Number of living languages and ...