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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 December 2024. United States Spanish US Spanish Español estadounidense Pronunciation [espaˈɲol estaðowniˈðense] Native to United States Speakers 43.4 million (2023) Language family Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Romance Western Ibero-Romance West Iberian Castillian Spanish United States ...
The different dialects of the Spanish language spoken in the Americas are distinct from each other, as well as from those varieties spoken in the Iberian Peninsula and the Spanish Mediterranean islands—collectively known as Peninsular Spanish—and Spanish spoken elsewhere, such as in Equatorial Guinea, Western Sahara, or in the Philippines.
Spanglish is a code-switching variant of Spanish and English and is spoken in areas with large bilingual populations of Spanish and English speakers, such as along the Mexico–United States border (California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas), Florida, and New York City.
40% of U.S. Latinos say they hear family and friends make jokes or comments about other Latinos who cannot speak Spanish, according to a 2023 Pew Research Center study.
Spanish continues to be used by millions of citizens and immigrants to the United States from Spanish-speaking countries of the Americas (for example, many Cubans arrived in Miami, Florida, beginning with the Cuban Revolution in 1959, and followed by other Latin American groups; the local majority is now Spanish-speaking).
For many who identify as Hispanic, Latino and Spanish, they recognize their family’s origins and/or speak the Spanish language. But it's not uncommon to hear these phrases used interchangeably.
Portions of the north coast of Morocco were a former Spanish protectorate and Spanish remains spoken by about 1.7 million people as of 2018. This makes Morocco the country with the most Spanish speakers outside the Hispanophone world unless the United States is excluded. [20]
Additionally, Spanish is the second most spoken language in the United States and is by far the most popular foreign language among students. [221] In 2015, it was estimated that over 50 million Americans spoke Spanish, about 41 million of whom were native speakers. [222]