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