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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.
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 A language designated as having a unique legal status in the state: typically, the language used in a nation's legislative bodies, and often, official government business.
Country Region Population Status India Asia 1,367,703,110 [1]: Hindi is one of the two official union languages of India alongside English.Hindi and Urdu (both registers of Hindustani language) are official languages along with 20 others under the Eighth Schedule of Constitution of India.
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 ...
The Spanish spoken in the Canary Islands traces its origins back to the Castilian conquest in the 15th century, and, in addition to a resemblance to Western Andalusian speech patterns, it also features strong influence from the Spanish varieties spoken in the Americas, [60] which in turn have also been influenced historically by Canarian ...
Dialectal variants of the Spanish language in Argentina. The de facto [A] official language is Spanish, spoken by almost all Argentines. [6] Due to the extensive Argentine geography, Spanish has a strong variation among regions, although the prevalent dialect is Rioplatense, primarily spoken in the La Plata Basin and accented similarly to Neapolitan language.
Pages in category "Spanish-speaking countries and territories" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total. ... This page was last edited on 7 June ...