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	Spanish language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Spanish is one of the official languages of the African Union, the European Union and the United Nations.
		Spanish is to some extent regulated by the RAE (Real Academia Española), which, in association with twenty-one other national language academies, exercises a conservative influence through its publication of dictionaries and widely respected grammar guides and style guides.
		Spanish has a phonemic stress system — the place where stress will fall cannot be predicted by other features of the word, and two words can differ by just a change in stress.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/s/sp/spanish_language.html (1479 words)

	Spanish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Spanish or Castilian (Spanish: español or castellano) is an Iberian Romance language, and the fourth most widely spoken language in the world according to some sources, while other sources list it as the 2nd or 3rd most spoken language.
		Spanish ceased to be an official language of the Philippines in 1987, and it is now spoken by less than 0.01% of the population; 2,658 speakers (1990 Census).
		Spanish is also spoken by segments of the populations in Aruba, Canada, Curaçao, Israel (both standard Spanish and Ladino), northern Morocco (both standard Spanish and Ladino), Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey (Ladino), and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spanish_language (2712 words)

	Spanish language - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Spanish or Castillian is an Iberian Romance language, and the third or fourth most spoken language in the world.
		Spanish is also spoken in Canada, Israel (both standard Spanish and Ladino Judaeo-Spanish), northern Morocco, Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey (Ladino Judaeo-Spanish), the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Western Sahara.
		Spanish is a relatively inflected language, with a two-gender system and about fifty conjugated forms per verb, but no noun declension and limited pronominal declension.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Spanish_language (1909 words)

	Spanish language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Spanish or Castilian is an (Click link for more info and facts about Iberian) Iberian (The group of languages derived from Latin) Romance language, and the second (perhaps third) most spoken language in the world.
		Spanish does hold co-official status in the state of (A state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border) New Mexico, and in the unincorporated U.S. territory of (A self-governing commonwealth associated with the United States occupying the island of Puerto Rico) Puerto Rico.
		Spanish is nicknamed la lengua de (Spanish writer best remembered for `Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)) Cervantes (the language of Cervantes, the author of (The hero of a romance by Cervantes; chivalrous but impractical) Don Quixote).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sp/spanish_language.htm (2612 words)

	Names given to the Spanish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Linguistically speaking, 'Castilian' means 'Spanish', as it is the medieval Castilian language that spread across Spain and became the national language known virtually always as 'Spanish', in English.
		Castilians themselves usually use the term español, thus legitimately presenting it as the national language (the Spanish constitution declares that all Spaniards have 'the right to speak Spanish/Castilian and the duty to know it').
		Spanish is often referred to in educated circles as the 'Language of Cervantes' or lengua de Cervantes, in reference to the writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, and in analogy with the expressions language of Shakespeare (English), language of Goethe (German), language of Dante (Italian), language of Camões (Portuguese), and the like.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Names_given_to_the_Spanish_language (1859 words)

	Chemistry - Spanish language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Spanish or Castilian is an Iberian Romance language, and the second (perhaps third) most spoken language in the world.
		Spanish is a member of the Romance branch of Indo-European, descended largely from Latin and having much in common with its geographical neighbors.
		Spanish is also spoken by segments of the populations in Aruba, Canada, Israel (both standard Spanish and the Judæo-Spanish of the Sephardim, also known as Ladino), northern Morocco (both standard Spanish and Ladino), Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey (Ladino), the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Western Sahara.
	www.chemistrydaily.com /chemistry/Spanish_language (2381 words)

	[SPANSKKURS] : SPANSKKURS : Spansk undervisning: Lysten på spansk? : SPANSK - SPANISH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Spanish or Castilian is an Iberian Romance language, and the third or fourth most spoken language in the world.
		The Spanish language was developed from vulgar Latin, with influence from Basque and Arabic, in the north of the Iberian Peninsula.
		Spanish is also spoken in Aruba (both standard Spanish and Papiamento), Canada, Israel (both standard Spanish and the Judo-Spanish of the Sephardim, also known as Ladino), northern Morocco (both standard Spanish and Ladino), Netherlands Antilles (both standard Spanish and Papiamento), Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey (Ladino), the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Western Sahara.
	www.es-espanolonline.com /wst_page10.html (2054 words)

	Spanish language : QuicklyFind Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Spanish is also spoken in Andorra, Belize, Canada, Gibraltar, Israel, northern Morocco, Netherlands Antilles, Philippines, United States of America, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey (as Judaeo-Spanish) and Western Sahara.
		Spanish verbs are conjugated in three moods: indicative, subjunctive, and imperative.
		The future tense of the subjunctive is found mostly in old literature or legalese and is even misused in conversations by confusing it with the past tense (often due to the similarity of its charataristic suffix, "-ere", as opposed to one of the suffixes of the past tense, "-era").
	www.quicklyfind.com /info/Spanish_language.htm (3602 words)

	Spanish Super Bargains, Spanish Academic, Spanish Architecture, Spanish Art, Spanish Audio Books, Spanish Best Seller - ...
		Spanish is the most widely spoken of the Romance languages, both in terms of number of speakers and the number of countries in which it is the dominant language.
		The purest form of Spanish is known as Castilian, originally one of the dialects that developed from Latin after the Roman conquest of Hispania in the 3rd century A.D).
		Spanish vocabulary is basically of Latin origin, though many of the words differ markedly from their counterparts in French and Italian.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/Spanish.htm (775 words)

	Spain Languages
		Known around the world as "Spanish", this is the official language of the country as it is stipulated in the Article 3 of the Spanish Constitution.
		Castilian is also spoken in many countries around the globe which were former colonies of Spain, most of them in Central and South America (except Brazil and the Guyanas), but not exclusively, and that is a fact that many people are not aware of.
		The name of Castilian, and later on Spanish, really emerges from the re-conquest of Spain from the Moors by the Christians and it became the bridge of communication between the different peoples of the Iberian peninsula.
	www.donquijote.org /culture/spain/languages/castilian.asp (299 words)

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		The Spanish State embarked on a period of forty years' dictatorship, during which the political life of the country was characterized by the illegality of all the political parties with the exception of the National Movement and the prohibition of speaking and teaching in any other language different from Spanish.
		Castilian, which is spoken in all the national territory, Equatorial Guinea, the former Spanish territory of Sahara, Central and South America (except Brazil and the Guyana) and parts of the Philippines, is the official and cultural language of some 350 million people the world over.
		Declared the official language of Spain by Philip V in 1714, it is usually known as Spanish, a name that was already used in the Middle Ages in Castile, and frequently by the grammarians and authors of the 16th and 17th centuries.
	www.csubak.edu /~tfernandez_ulloa/HLE/origenes/1.doc (2637 words)

	Transparent Language - Spanish Language Learning
		The Spanish language is the most widely spoken of all the Romance languages, in terms of number of speakers and number of countries which claim Spanish as the official language.
		Spanish vocabulary stems from Latin, which was introduced to the Iberian peninsula in the 3rd century during the Roman conquest as a dialect, Castilian.
		Castilian Spanish, which is spoken in Spain today, is considered the purest form of Spanish.
	www.learn-spanish-language-software.com /overview.htm (940 words)

	Spanish language -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Castilian dialect, the source of modern standard Spanish, arose in the 9th century in north-central Spain (Old Castile) and spread to central Spain (New Castile) by the 11th century.
		In the late 15th century the kingdoms of Castile, León, and Aragon merged, and Castilian became the official language of all Spain, with Catalan and Galician (effectively a dialect of Portuguese) becoming regional languages and Aragonese and Leonese reduced to a fraction of their original speech areas.
		Spanish, however, is the everyday tongue among the Cubans in Florida and Mexican Americans in Texas, California, the Southwest, and other parts of the country.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9379227?tocId=9379227&query=Castilian&ct= (912 words)

	Spanish Language Varieties
		Spanish is the language of 19 separate countries and Puerto Rico.
		This Spanish was spoken in Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and was brought to the Americas by the early colonists.
		Castilian sounds to Latin Americans much like British English sounds to U.S. residents.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/hhmaccents1.html (697 words)

	Castilian Spanish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Castilian Spanish – not any one localized dialect of it, but a supra-regional or ‘neutral’ variety – supplies the model for standard Spanish in Spain (some Latin Americans also regard Castilian usage as being the most prestigious, although in practice the majority of speakers now gravitate towards regional linguistic norms).
		Given the way standard Spanish is defined, features that are general in Castilian usage, particularly in terms of pronunciation, are likely to belong to the standard system enshrined in the normative manuals.
		Among speakers who have emigrated from Andalusia to Castilian cities (especially Madrid), /s/ pronunciation is usually the last speech variable to be adjusted in any process of dialect shift.
	www.staff.ncl.ac.uk /i.e.mackenzie/castile.htm (1079 words)

	DR1 Forums - What language is spoken in the DR?
		It is Spanish (abbreviated as 'es' for 'Español') which represents Spain at the EU (http://europa.eu.int/).
		The modern dialects of Spanish all trace themselves back to ultimately to the Late Latin spoken in Spain, which began to be recognizably distinct around the 8th or 9th c”.
		Spanish thus cannot be seen as a language in itself but the name given to this vast group of dialects.
	www.dr1.com /forums/printthread.php?t=36909 (2392 words)

	Differences Between American and Castilian Spanish (page 2) \| Antimoon Forum
		Regarding the teaching of Spanish in the US I reproduce a text from the Spanish Education Department where it says that 1300 European Spanish teachers were working in 27 states across the US in 2003, giving classes in or of Spanish.
		I'm not saying that Spanish isn't a beautiful language, which it is, but I'm a Catalan speaker from birth and my parents have never pretended to bother anyone with the choice, the same way I've spoken Catalan to my two children from birth and trust they will follow my example in the future.
		By the way, 40% of Spanish population live in areas with an "official" language that is not only Castilian since Catalan, Basque, and Galician-Portuguese are official in their territories and the languages have now been compulsory in schools and regional governments for the past 25 years.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/posts/5104-2.htm (1638 words)

	Spanish Castilian Empire, History_Other, Free Essays @ ChuckIII College Resources
		Spanish Castilian Empire Why was it considered necessary for the Spanish Crown to justify and legitimise the conquest of the Americas and what arguments and means did it employ for this purpose?
		The ideology behind the Spanish conquest of the Americas was the spread of Catholicism.
		In conclusion, the Castilians did contribute significantly to the rise of Amerindian society and primarily their intentions were good but ultimately they reaped more than they sowed.
	www.chuckiii.com /Reports/History_Other/Spanish_Castilian_Empire.shtml (1434 words)

	THE SPANISH OF CASTILE
		Regardless of contemporary attitudes, it is an indisputable fact that the modern Spanish language derives in greatest measure from the early speech of Castile, and much of reconquered southern and southwestern Spain also speaks dialects which directly trace their ancestry to medieval Castilian.
		The Spanish of Castile shares most of its morphosyntactic traits with the remainder of Spain, although in rural and isolated dialects archaic and idiosyncratic elements are found.
		In the Spanish Golden Age the vizcaíno provided a literary stereotype (together with the gitano, the negro, the gallego, the moro, the sayagués, etc.) of Spanish spoken as a second language.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/j/m/jml34/Castile.htm (2393 words)

	SPANISH LITERATURE
		At the beginning of the 16th century, The Catholic kings asserted that Castilian was to be the principal language in Spain.
		Apart from during the Franco years (1939-1975) Spanish literature was written in these four languages, although the most representative has always been Castilian.
		Today there is a certain ambiguity: Some critics identify Spanish literature with Castilian literature, and use the nomenclature Hispanic literature for the remaining peninsular languages.
	www.spanisharts.com /books/literature/literature.htm (565 words)

	BUG - Backpackers Guide to Spanish language
		Castilian Spanish, known simply as Spanish outside Spain, is the country's major language.
		Spanish is useful in other parts of Spain where Basque, Catalan or Galician is spoken.
		More than 350,000,000 people speak Spanish, as it is also spoken in the majority of countries throughout Latin America.
	www.bugeurope.com /essentials/spanish.html (192 words)

	Castilian Spanish Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		During the 1920's the Spanish province of Castile became an important literary, military and political center.
		Castilian Spanish is the official language of Spain and it is the language that is spoken by most of the people.
		In the past, many Spanish people felt greater loyalty to their own region than to the nation as a whole and three regional groups in northern Spain remain strong today.
	www.porquesi.com /spain/language (326 words)

	Castilian (from Spanish literature) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		The earliest written materials in Spanish, in the form of glosses on Latin texts, date from the 10th century, and works of literature in Spanish first appeared c.
		Partly as a result of this geographic isolation, Spanish literature was for centuries considered...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-14735?tocId=14735 (1068 words)

	Differences Between American and Castilian Spanish \| Antimoon Forum
		I recall a Mexican friend of mine having to tell a Cubana to slow it down b/c he was having trouble understanding her, but that's probably b/c she was speaking a mile a minute.
		Unlike US Americans, the Peninsular Spanish accent is not looked up to as proper or better by the majority of the population in Latin America.
		As far as the Spanish that is taught here in the U.S...I'd say the focus in the majority of American high schools is on Central America (especially Mexico for obvious reasons) and South America.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/2004/5104.htm (2482 words)

	Spanish article - Spanish Spanish language Castilian Spanish people list Spanish people - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Slang for mammary intercourse, a type of sexual practice.
		If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.
		Spanish article - Spanish definition - what means Spanish
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Spanish (99 words)

	Rosetta Stone Spanish (Castilian) - software from Rosetta Stone for Spanish
		Spanish Level 2 builds on the Level 1 material with up to 300 hours of accelerated study for intermediate learners.
		Spanish Level 2 provides more advanced instruction in such categories as Greetings and Conversation, Travel, Transportation and Transactions, Shopping and Dining Out, Asking Questions; Forms of Address, The Weather and Clothing, Office Activities and Terminology, Common Social Conventions, Calendar Conventions, The Five Senses; Sickness and Health, and a complete reference section of commonly used terms.
		Spanish Levels 1 and 2 provide up to 550 hours of mastery instruction in Listening Comprehension, Reading and Speaking.
	www.multilingualbooks.com /tlstore/rosetta-spanish.html (538 words)

	CASTILIAN CRIMSON
		The successful birth of the Spanish horror film was a long time coming, much like its Italian counterpart, with almost no dark fantastique emerging from Spain until the 1960s.
		But once given life, Spanish horror cinema produced some of the most talented, and at times controversial, voices in the genre and films that distinguished themselves from their European brethren with a harder-edged Iberian sensibility and passion.
		To be considered a "Spanish" horror film, a movie must, in general, have Spanish co-financing and be directed by a Spaniard or someone residing in Spain.
	www.latarnia.com /castiliancrimson.html (530 words)

	GILT Horizons: Spanish: Castilian vs. Mexican (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The reason the InDesign language list says "Spanish: Castilian" is to distinguish between Castilian Spanish, Galego (very similar to Portuguese but with Castilian-style orthography) and Catalan, all of which are spoken in Spain, not to exclude Mexican Spanish.
		Both New World Spanish and Castilian share a common orthography and hyphenation is the same for the two.
		Also, you should be sending the finished projects back to the translator (probably as a PDF) so he or she can review it and make sure you haven't introduced any errors.
	www.lisa.org /arle/archives/2005/03/spanish_castili.html (308 words)

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