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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.
Spanish Papua New Guinea: 4 English; Hiri Motu; PNG Sign Language; Tok Pisin; Paraguay: 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 ...
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.
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 ...
There are an estimated 474.7 million native Spanish speakers and about 100 million second and foreign language speakers around the world as of 2022, totaling 574 million Hispanophones in total. [2] This makes Spanish the second most natively spoken language and fourth most spoken language overall globally. The vast majority of Hispanophones are ...
Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world. [2] [3] Number of living languages and speakers. Country or territory Number of living languages
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