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* Spanish is the official language in 20 Countries. * 1. Argentina * 2. Bolivia * 3. Chile * 4. Colombia * 5. Costa Rica * 6. Cuba * 7. Dominican Republic

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* 8. Ecuador * 9. El Salvador * 10. Equatorial Guinea * 11. Guatemala * 12. Honduras * 13. Mxico * 14. Nicaragua

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* 15. Panama * 16. Paraguay * 17. Peru * 18. Spain * 19. Uruguay * 20. Venezuela

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* Spanish is one of the worlds most widely spoken languages and the official language in 20 countries. It is spoken by nearly half a billion people worldwide, and in the United States more than 35 million people consider Spanish their mother tongue. * As a result of Christopher Columbus discoveries and the subsequent colonization of South and Central America in the late 15th century, Spanish spread across the whole continent (except for a few countries such as Brazil). * There are approximately 407 million people speaking Spanish as a native language, making it the second-most-spoken language by number of native speakers after Mandarin. * It also has 60 million speakers as a second language, and 20 million students as a foreign language.

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* Spanish has at least 3 million native speakers each in 44 countries, making it the fourth mostly geographically widely spoken language behind English (112 countries), French (60) and Arabic (57). * Spanish is sometimes called espaol and sometimes castellano * Spanish is one of the world's most phonetic languages. If you know how a word is spelled, you can almost always know how it is pronounced