The most-widely spoken language in Spain is
Spanish. It is the mother tongue of about 79% of the population followed by
Catalan, Galician and Basque in that order.
Basque is the only non-Romance language with an
official status in Spain.
Spanish is the official language in Spain and
it is used in government, the media and education. The rest of the languages
have official status in their communities as well. A lot of people in these
communities think their language is the main language and Spanish is secondary.
In addition, there are Spanish cities like Ceuta and
Melilla in the north of Africa where the Muslim people speak Arabic as
frequently as Spanish.
Spanish is an old language and it comes from
Latin, but it has changed over many centuries. It has different words from
other languages, for example, for “football” we say “fútbol” as well as
“balonpie”, the traditional Spanish word.
Spanish is also spoken in South America (except
Brazil), Central America, Mexico and the USA.
In Spain, many people speak English but they
are very pleased if visitors can use some Spanish words as well.
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