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About The Spanish Language

Spanish apart from being the official language of Spain is also the official language of Puerto Rico and is close to becoming the official language in countries such as Canada, Morocco, the Philippines and in the United States many inhabitants are fluent in this language. It is estimated that Spanish is spoken by up to 200 million people across the globe. Spanish originated in the southwest Europe from the Latin dialect. The Spanish vocabulary predominantly consists of words from the Latin language. Owing to the fact that Spanish speaking people were spread in many parts of the world the language soon adopted words from other languages such as Arabic, English, French and Italian. Spanish is the most widely spoken and studied descendant of the Latin languages.

Two major dialects observed in Spanish language, Andalusian and Castilian. A difference is observed in the two dialects in the pronunciation of the combination of letters ce, ze, and za. The Castilian speakers sound out the letter combinations with a th sound, whereas the Andalusian assert the above combinations with an s sound. In the United States you will find different dialects, in the southwest you will find Mexican Spanish, Puerto Rician, Cuban and many others. ( Learn more about Spanish dialects. )Though the pronunciation may differ, the speakers follow a single linguistic system and a common descriptive linguistics. The Spanish vocabulary, pronunciation and expressions may slightly differ from people living in various parts of Spain or even the world, but these variations have never caused too much of a communication gap.

Spanish is known to closely be related to several other West Iberian languages that have descended from the Latin language. It is gladly observed that most are easily understood by the speakers of one or other kind. Spanish and Italian are sometimes referred to as sister languages because they follow a highly similar phonemic system. There is not even much difference in vocabulary, grammar or syllable structure. The lexical sameness between Spanish and Italian is known to be around 82%.

As a descendant of Latin dialect it naturally uses Latin alphabets, with an inclusion of �. Throughout history ch and ll were recognized as single letters, they had their own place in the alphabetical order. 1994 onwards, these twin letters have been substituted with proper letter pairs.

Spanish language is comparatively an inflected language. It has around fifty conjugated forms per verb and follows the most common two gender system. But Spanish has a smaller noun declension and a limited pronominal declension. The Spanish sentence structure is one where the agent comes first, the verb second and the object third. This system is also known as the Subject-Verb-Object syntax, but variations may occur. Spanish language is known to be right branching as it generally places nouns before adjectives and it also uses prepositions. Spanish language allows the excision of pronouns when practically found to be unnecessary.

The pronunciation of any Spanish word can be easily guessed with one glance at the spelling. But phonemic stress is where one may be confused. Spanish follows a system of phonemic stress which implies that by a minor change of phonemic stress in a single word it can mean two different things. Thus a new learner has to be very careful as to the stress of each word. Spanish is also called a syllable-timed language, as every syllable is believed to take approximately the same time measure, though there might be a difference owing to the situation.

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