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The Basque-speaking territories (the Basque Autonomous Community and Navarre) follow Spanish naming customs (given names + two family names, the two family names being usually the father's and the mother's). The given names are officially in one language or the other (Basque or Spanish), but often people use a translated or shortened version.
The naming customs of Hispanic America are similar to the Spanish naming customs practiced in Spain, with some modifications to the surname rules.Many Hispanophones in the countries of Spanish-speaking America have two given names, plus like in Spain, a paternal surname (primer apellido or apellido paterno) and a maternal surname (segundo apellido or apellido materno).
The Swedish speaking farmers along the coast of Österbotten usually used two surnames – one which pointed out the father's name (e.g. Eriksson, Andersson, Johansson) and one which related to the farm or the land their family or bigger family owned or had some connection to (e.g. Holm, Fant, Westergård, Kloo).
We do share a lot of other elements that can help us find a way to unite and communicate in a better way, whether we speak the same language or not." Still, Touma believes that learning Spanish ...
In Spanish, the term "hispano", as in "hispanoamericano", refers to the people of Spanish origin who live in the Americas and to a relationship to Spain or to the Spanish language. There are people in Hispanic America that are not of Spanish origin, such as Amerindians- the original people of these areas, as well as Africans and people with ...
"When I speak in Spanish, the young parts of me come out, the ones that have been in my subconscious since I was born [when] I lived in Cuba and Mexico," she said, according to an English ...
Mejía is a Spanish surname of Jewish origin, dating back to the early 1500s. In Spain, the surname is predominantly found in Galicia and Toledo . It is also common in several Latin American countries, particularly Mexico, Honduras, and Colombia.
Jiménez is a patronymic surname of Iberian origin, first appearing in the Basque lands.. Jiménez is a patronymic construction from the modern-styled given name Jimeno, plus the Spanish suffix-ez, representing 'son of' Jimeno.