ISO 639-3 · spaspa
Indo-European family
Spanish
español
Spanish is a language of the Castilian branch (Indo-European), spoken in Cuba, Spain, Chile and United States and 23 more countries. Wikidata counts 485 m first-language speakers (2023) and 70.6 m who speak it as a second language. Wikidata describes it as “Romance language originating in the Iberian Peninsula”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
spa- ISO 639-1
es- Glottocode
stan1288- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- UNESCO
- Safe
- Centre point
- 40.40, -3.70
- Wikipedia
- 351 language editions
485 mfirst-language speakers
70.6 msecond-language speakers
27countries
1scripts
10levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Spanish · español |
|---|---|
| Also called | Castilian, Spanish language, Castilian language |
| L1 speakers | 485,000,000 (2023) |
| L2 speakers | 70,606,900 (2010) |
| Written in | Latin script |
| Official in | Cuba, Spain, Chile, United States, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, Paraguay, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, Guatemala, Antigua and Barbuda, Honduras, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, Equatorial Guinea |
| Grammatical cases | 1 listed in Wikidata |
| Grammatical genders | 3 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Safe
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Spanish
The branches above Spanish, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Cubaofficial · 3 languages in the indexSpainofficial · 20 languages in the indexChileofficial · 9 languages in the indexUnited Statesofficial · 245 languages in the indexArgentinaofficial · 28 languages in the indexPeruofficial · 89 languages in the indexVenezuelaofficial · 45 languages in the indexParaguayofficial · 23 languages in the indexEcuadorofficial · 22 languages in the indexColombiaofficial · 81 languages in the indexBoliviaofficial · 41 languages in the indexGuatemalaofficial · 24 languages in the indexAntigua and Barbudaofficial · 3 languages in the indexHondurasofficial · 10 languages in the indexDominican Republicofficial · 3 languages in the indexEl Salvadorofficial · 4 languages in the indexCosta Ricaofficial · 10 languages in the indexPanamaofficial · 10 languages in the indexNicaraguaofficial · 12 languages in the indexMexicoofficial · 169 languages in the indexEquatorial Guineaofficial · 15 languages in the indexAndorra3 languages in the indexBelize6 languages in the indexGibraltar2 languages in the indexUruguay4 languages in the indexAruba4 languages in the indexPhilippines154 languages in the index