| The author: Stephen Muller |
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| Short history of the Spanish Language |
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The Spanish language, after the Chinese Tangerine and English language, the third majority of a spoken language in the world, with approximately 400.000.000 from native speakers everywhere on a planet. Its origin, however, is much more more reduced, and geographically and in the digital form.
Together with other originally European languages, such as the Portuguese, French or Italian language, linguistic roots of the Spanish language do it by Romance language. It means, that Latin, or is more certain, Vulgar Latin, makes the most important linguistic basis.
Constant contact and mutual influence of the Latin basis to other linguistic traditions and cultures have led to formation of various Romance languages as we know them today. In case of the Spanish language there are, for example, features which arrive from iberijskih and the Celtic traditions.
There is also a considerable quantity of the Greek dictionary which at first has been accepted by Latin speakers and then is brought in the Spanish language. Words, such as "escuela" (school) or "huerfano" (orphan) all belong to this tradition. And we should not forget seven centuries of the Arabian domination of peninsula. It has in a stock, by the way, the important inheritance of lexical elements which have been included in the Spanish language. The surname which you possibly know which illustrates it, is "Almodovar".
The Spanish language, especially in bilingual territories of Spain also known as castellano (kastilets), because of its origin in the field of Castile. Castile is located in the northern-central part of Spain, and it was once the neuralgic centre of the Spanish empire which takes the Spanish language to more than twenty other countries.
The establishment of linguistic unity of the Spanish language as common language for the state of Spain was in parallel its territorial unity. This union only was possible after the Gain of peninsula from Arabian poselentsev, in the end of 15th century. Kingdom of Castile, and also its linguistic variety expanded to practical all quantity of Iberian peninsula. After marriage Izabel of I Castile and Fernando II Aragon, the Spanish state, and kastilsky language and culture of a steel the most dominating identity was born. Within the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, through a number of linguistic development and normalising changes, language of the Spanish state became that is known now as Modern Spanish language.
It is important to remember, however, that colloquial Spanish language is not identical in various areas of the Spanish state. Actually, its pronunciation and lexical features can change to very essential degree from one place to another. However, service united, standard, the version of the Spanish language and its written form is guaranteed by Real Academy de la Lengua Espanola. The academy establishes rules to follow, to speak and write to ways which is accepted by all various Spanish speakers. |
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| About the Author |
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Stephen Muller works to Babylon Idiomas, the Spanish language institute with schools in Spain [Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Sevilla], Argentina and Costa Rica. Behind the additional information visit http://www.babylon-idiomas.com
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