Countries
Countries
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
Ethiopia, Kenya
Total No. Of Countries
462
0
46
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National Language
Spain
Ethiopia
Second Language
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Africa
Minority Language
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
Somalia
Regulated By
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
Not Available
Interesting Facts
- One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
- Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
Similar To
French Language
Somali Language
Derived From
Latin
Not Available
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2734
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2224
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeksNA
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
hola
akkam
Thank You
Gracias
Galatoomi
How Are You?
Cómo estás?
Attam jirta/jirtu?
Good Night
Buenas Noches
Nagayattii buli
Good Evening
Bonne soirée
Akkam waarite
Good Afternoon
Buenas Tardes
Attam oolte / ooltan
Good Morning
Buenos Días
Attam bulte/bultan
Please
Por Favor
Maaloo
Sorry
triste
naa dhiisi
Bye
adiós
Nagayattii!
I Love You
Te Quiero
Sin jaaladha
Excuse Me
Discúlpeme
Maaloo na dabarsi
Dialects
Dialect 1
Mexican Spanish
Borana
Where They Speak
Mexico
Ethiopia, Kenya
How Many People Speak
105,000,000.004,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Cuban Spanish
Orma
Where They Speak
Cuba
Kenya
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0066,000.00
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Puerto Rican Spanish
Wata
Where They Speak
Puerto Rico
Kenya
How Many People Speak
3,900,000.0013,000.00
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2117
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
489.00 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
6.15 %0.36 %
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
410.00 million24.00 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
89.50 millionNA
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Español
Afaan Oromo
Alternative Names
Castellano, Castilian, Español
Afaan Oromoo
French Name
espagnol; castillan
galla
German Name
Spanisch
Galla-Sprache
Pronunciation
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Not Available
Oromos
History
Origin
210 BC
16
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Romance
Cushitic
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Spanish and Spanish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
Afaan Oromo
Language Position
291
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Spanish
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
Code
ISO 639 1
es
om
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
spa
orm
ISO 639 2/B
spa
orm
ISO 639 3
spa
orm
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
stan1288
nucl1736
Linguasphere
51-AAA-b
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available