All beings communicate in some way, but only man does it through language, a system of sound "symbols" used by the same group of a country or region, known by language or language.
Thus, the different languages we know today are constituted. It is through it that each group expresses its culture, customs, thought and everything that exists around it and in its society, with mastery and fluidity, enabling adequate communication. When this does not happen, it can cause disruptions, misunderstandings and even arguments among speakers.
Do you know how the Spanish language came about?
It originated from the Vulgar Latin spoken by the population that constituted the Iberian Peninsula. It later received the name of castellano (Castilian) or language castellan (Castilian), on the occasion of the residence of the kings in the medieval kingdom of Castile (Chatelaine). Nowadays, although the name is still a reference, after the constitution of Spain as a nation and the attempt to standardize the country's language, the language was made official as “Spanish”.
Even though Spanish is the official language, it is not the only one spoken in Spain. There are other languages like, the catalan (Catalan), the Valencian, O gallego (Galician), the Basque or euskera and also numerous dialects or variations of the official language, including the Andalusian, O Extremaduran (extreme), the murcian, O canary (canary). These languages and dialects are primitive from different regions of Spain and have great importance for the local population, even being treated as a second language are sometimes used more than Spanish.
At the end of the 15th century, with the new territorial conquests of the Spaniards, the language expanded throughout America and underwent numerous changes, now remaining within the limits of popular use and others spreading throughout the parents. These occurred for geographic, cultural and social reasons of each region, by the coexistence with the languages indigenous peoples and, also, due to the peculiarities of their own speakers, mostly soldiers and immigrants from various origins.
Thus, with all its varieties, Spanish has become the mother tongue of countries such as: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Venezuela, in addition to being an official language in Equatorial Guinea (because it was a Spanish colony in Africa), the Philippines (because it was a Spanish colony in Asia) and in Spain.
What is the role of the Spanish language today?
The Spanish language is now considered the third most spoken language in the world and is not limited to speakers of the mother tongue, which already exceeds 300 million people. This number grows each year by the amount of individuals who learn the language as a foreign language.
English holds the first place, followed by Mandarin, spoken in China, which remains in second place due to the number of inhabitants of this region. country, but Spanish stands out in the commercial world, mainly in the European community, where together with English are the most used. Another interesting fact is that it has reached a considerable number of Internet users, being currently the third most used language on the internet.
In Brazil, the proximity to the borders of Spanish-speaking countries and the increase in trade relations driven by MERCOSUR, led the Brazilian government to introduce the Spanish language as a mandatory offer in schools, through Law nº 11.161, on August 5th of 2005.
The names of some countries when written in the Spanish language can undergo minor changes, to draw attention we made the table below:
Rosana Beatriz Garrasini Sellanes
Brazil School Collaborator
Degree in Letters – Portuguese and Spanish by the Catholic University of Goiás – PUC/GO
Spanish - Brazil School
Source: Brazil School - https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/espanhol/predominancia-da-lingua-espanhola.htm
