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An explanation of the development of Medieval Spanish sibilants in Castile and Andalusia (archived 29 December 2009) A recording of the sibilants, as they would have been pronounced in medieval Spanish (archived 28 February 2009) A History of the Spanish language (sample from the second edition, 2002), by Ralph Penny
Spanish is a Romance language which developed from Vulgar Latin in central areas of the Iberian Peninsula and has absorbed many loanwords from other Romance languages like French, Occitan, Catalan, Portuguese, and Italian. [1] Spanish also has lexical influences from Arabic and from Paleohispanic languages such as Iberian, Celtiberian and Basque.
Old Spanish (roman, romançe, romaz; [3] Spanish: español medieval), also known as Old Castilian or Medieval Spanish, refers to the varieties of Ibero-Romance spoken predominantly in Castile and environs during the Middle Ages. The earliest, longest, and most famous literary composition in Old Spanish is the Cantar de mio Cid (c. 1140–1207).
The Story of Spanish is a non-fiction book written by Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow [1] that charts the origins of the Spanish language.The 496-page book published by St. Martin’s Press (May 7, 2013), explains how the Spanish language evolved from a tongue spoken by a remote tribe of farmers in northern Spain to become one of the world’s most spoken languages.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 January 2025. Romance language "Castilian language" redirects here. For the specific variety of the language, see Castilian Spanish. For the broader branch of Ibero-Romance, see West Iberian languages. Spanish Castilian español castellano Pronunciation [espaˈɲol] ⓘ [kasteˈʝano ...
The human development and family science departments of Oklahoma State and Iowa State universities published a study in 2021 ... Mexico’s most commonly spoken languages are Spanish and Nahuatl ...
In any event, in the sphere of spoken language, the issue has become problematic since at least the 1950s when the commercial demands on movie dubbing studios working with Hollywood films began to call for the development of a Spanish whose pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammatical features would not be recognizable as belonging to any ...
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