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Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos asiáticos; Total population; 598,146 [1] [2] as of the 2010 United States Census including multiracial persons 0.2% of the total US population (2010) 4.1% of all Asian Americans (2010) 1.2% of all Latino Americans (2010) Regions with significant populations
Ecuador defines Spanish as its official language, but Spanish, Quechua and Shuar – as official languages of intercultural relations in the Article 2 of the 2008 Constitution. [145] Falkland Islands, English is the official & dominant language. Spanish is spoken by a minority of the population who comes from Chile and Argentina.
Spanish Manila became the capital of the Captaincy General of the Philippines and the Spanish East Indies in 1571, [65] [66] Spanish territories in Asia and the Pacific. [67] The Spanish invaded local states using the principle of divide and conquer, [59 bringing most of what is the present-day Philippines under one unified administration.
A Hispanic person's status is independent from whether or not he or she speaks the Spanish language, for not all Hispanic Americans speak Spanish. A Hispanic person may be of any race (White, Amerindian, mixed, Black, Asian or Pacific Islander). As of 2013 Hispanics accounted for 17.1% of the population, around 53.2 million people. [4]
Ñ-shaped animation showing flags of some countries and territories where Spanish is spoken. Spanish is the official language (either by law or de facto) in 20 sovereign states (including Equatorial Guinea, where it is official but not a native language), one dependent territory, and one partially recognized state, totaling around 442 million people.
The word Spanish refers to both a language and a nationality. A common mistake is calling a Spanish-speaking person Spanish. A person who speaks Spanish is Hispanic.
Chavacano is the only Spanish-based creole language in Asia. Its vocabulary is 90 percent Spanish, and the remaining 10 percent is a mixture of predominantly Portuguese, Hiligaynon, and some English. Chavacano is considered by the Instituto Cervantes to be a Spanish-based language. [196] [failed verification]
Hispanic is a term that refers to people of Spanish speaking origin or ancestry. Think language -- so if someone is from Spanish speaking origin or ancestry, they can be described as Hispanic. Latino?