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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Spanish Language and Literature |
 | | Spanish, a Romance language, that is, one of the modern spoken forms of Latin, is the speech of the larger part of the Iberian or most westerly peninsula of Europe. |
 | | A peculiarity of the language is the appearance of a number of so-called radical-changing verbs, which, regular as to their tense and personal endings, show a variation between ie and ue in the accented root syllable and e (upon occasion i) and o (upon occasion u) in that same syllable unaccented (siento, sentir, sintamos, etc.). |
 | | In the earliest period of Spanish geographical exploration the language was carried to the Canaries. |
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