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  Real Academia Española
The Academy also watches small details, such as adding an accent in 1959 to the orthography of conjugations of reunir to ensure that the eu was not taken as a diphthong.
The RAE has a formal procedure for "admitting" words to the Spanish language and is a major publisher of dictionaries and grammars.
The Academy is frequently criticised, particularly in the Americas, for being excessively conservative, elitist, and slow to change; excessively focused on usages found in the Madrid region and dismissive of variants found in other parts of Spain, let alone other countries; and excessively slow in revising its authoritative Dictionary of the Spanish Language.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/r/re/real_academia_espanola.html   (457 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Spanish language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Spanish is one of the official languages of the United Nations and the European Union.
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 a language of historical and cultural significance in the Philippines.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Spanish-language   (7953 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Spanish Language
Spanish is also the official language of the commonwealth of Puerto Rico and is widely spoken in several other nations, including Canada, Morocco, the Philippines, and the United States.
The Spanish language boasts a literary history that includes authors such as Miguel de Cervantes of Spain, Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda of Chile, and Octavio Paz of Mexico.
Spanish is a member of the Romance language group in the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European language family (see Language).
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557681/Spanish_Language.html   (712 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Spanish language Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Spanish is one of the official languages of the African Union, the European Union and the United Nations.
Spanish is the official and most important language in 20 countries: Argentina, Bolivia (co-official Aymará), Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea (co-official French), Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay (co-official Guaraní), Peru (co-official Quechua and Aymará), Puerto Rico, Spain (co-official Catalan, Galician, Basque and Aranese), Uruguay and Venezuela.
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.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Spanish Language and Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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.
In the earliest period of Spanish geographical exploration the language was carried to the Canaries.
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.).
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 Read about Spanish language at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Spanish language and learn about Spanish language ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Portuñol, the name of a mixed language coined from the words "português" and "español" and which is based on Spanish and Portuguese, is spoken in Brazilian border towns and villages, especially the Uruguayo-Brazilian border.
Philippines, where its use has been in decline, Spanish ceased to be an official language in 1973 and is now spoken by less than 0.01% of the population; 2,658 speakers (1990 Census).
Ladino, the language spoken by the descendants of the
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Spanish_language   (2211 words)

  
 Spanish language : QuicklyFind Info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Spanish is an Iberian Romance language, and the third or fourth most spoken language on the planet.
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.
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").
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 Spanish Language
Candau describes the development of the Spanish language and devotes her first four chapters to the foreign linguistic influences from groups such as the Romans, Visigoths, and Arabs.
He considers the study of language intonation as important as studying syntax and vocabulary: intonation is a crucial component which learners of a foreign language must master in order to speak fluently.
Spanish language uses an orthographical system, which uses symbols to represent sounds: in this orthographic guide, Basulto presents 8 short chapters to explain how to use punctuation, capitalization, abbreviations, hyphens, etc. She also discusses grammatical rationales for the accents that are the essential markers of a writer who has learned Spanish well.
www.library.uiuc.edu /mdx/bibliogs/spanish/spalang.htm   (8063 words)

  
 The world's top spanish language websites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Spanish is the official and most important language in 20 countries: Argentina, Bolivia (co-official Aymará), Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea (co-official Bubi and Fang), Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay (co-official Guaraní), Peru (co-official Quechua and Aymará), Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela.
In the United States, which has no officially recognized national language, Spanish is spoken by some three-quarters of its over 40 million Hispanic population.
Spanish is also spoken in Andorra, Belize, Canada, Gibraltar, Israel, northern Morocco, Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey (as Judaeo-Spanish) and Western Sahara.
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 Fernando Lazaro Carreter, 'referee' of Spanish
Lazaro Carreter had been a member of the prestigious Royal Spanish Academy, the language's official referee, since 1972 and was its president for seven years up to 1998.
He treated language as a vibrant, evolving entity and loved to listen to how it was spoken in the street, for better or worse.
''He was acutely seduced by the language of everyday people, by living language,'' said Victor Garcia de la Concha, the language academy's director and a former aide to Mr.
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 Spanish Language Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Spanish Institute of Puebla - Spanish language school in Puebla, Mexico teaches students from the outset to think and express themselves in Spanish.
In fact, the number of bilingual speakers in Brazil has greatly risen because nearly every nation bordering Brazil is Spanish speaking.
In Brazil, where virtually the entire population speaks Portuguese, Spanish has obtained an important status as a second language among young students and many skilled professionals.
www.alienartifacts.com /encyclopedia/Spanish_language   (2922 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Rivas, Angel de Saavedra, duque de (Spanish And Portuguese Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
A liberal, Rivas was condemned to death and fled in 1823 to England.
He became ambassador to Naples and France and president of the Spanish Royal Academy of the language.
In literature Rivas was the champion of Spanish romanticism.
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 Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Respected Spanish linguist dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Lazaro Carreter treated language as a vibrant, evolving entity and loved to listen to how it was spoken in the street, for better or worse.
"He was acutely seduced by the language of everyday people, by living language," said Victor Garcia de la Concha, the language academy's director and a former aide to Lazaro Carreter.
"I perceive a linguistic anemia that is growing among Spanish-speakers to the point where a new language is emerging: gibberish," Lazaro Carreter complained, according to the Spanish news agency Efe.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/03/04/respected_spanish_linguist_dies?mode=PF   (298 words)

  
 TUSPAIN - Weekly News from Spain 19 - 25 March, 1997,
For the sake of those in the audience who were old enough to have attended school in Spanish instead of Basque, he delivered his speech in this language, which he said "is the language of Cervantes and Unamuno, but also the language of Franco".
He added that the fact they were obliged to learn Spanish as their native language, did not mean that they have to be left out now, because their knowledge of Basque is almost non-existent.
Angel Gonzales entered the Spanish Royal Academy of Language with a speech on the plot of Antonio Machado.
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 Language
The University of Minnesota's CLA Language Center - links to search engines in Spanish, online learning resources such as dictionaries and exercises, geography and travel, news and weather, and much more.
Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures - another excellent source to access materials and information available electronically.
La página del idioma español - a site entirely in Spanish that receives more than 10,000 hits a day and provides all kinds of resources for lovers of the Spanish language, among them La palabra del día that you can have sent daily via email.
faculty.juniata.edu /thurston/intro_spanish_lang_sequence.htm   (329 words)

  
 Academy of Spanish Studies in Madrid: Study Abroad and Learn Spanish Language in Spain
Academy of Spanish Studies in Madrid: Study Abroad and Learn Spanish Language in Spain
Study in the centre of the city, in the leading Madrid Spanish Language Academy.
The academy is located just 5 minutes away from Madrid's renowned Plaza de España and ten minutes away from Plaza Mayor.
www.ac-madrid.com   (386 words)

  
 The Age of Enlightenment.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The creation of new cultural institutions began during the reign of Philip V with the founding in 1714 of the Libreria Real which would become the National Library and the Royal Spanish Academy of Language.
Ventura Rodriguez and Juan de Villanueva were the two most important Spanish architects of this epoch during which by the Royal Palace, the Prado Museum and the Gate of Alcala were built.
Both the Spanish and the foreign painters commissioned with decorating palaces were mediocre.
www.sispain.org /english/language/age.html   (328 words)

  
 Learn Spanish: Useful Links
Spanish Grammar Exercises From Barbara Kuczun Nelson, professor at Colby College.
Basic Spanish for the Virtual Student A fairly extensive collection of lessons brought to you by William L. Dechent.
Spanish Language Exercises From Juan Ramón de Arana.
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 THE SPANISH ROYAL ACADEMY OF LANGUAGE PRESENTS
The new edition is significant because of the collaboration between the Spanish Royal Academy and the Asociación de Academías de la Lengua (Association of Language Academies), since the 21 Spanish-speaking Latin American academies have worked actively on it.
At the presentation, Víctor García de la Concha, the Director of the Spanish Royal Academy, said, "It is a faithful reflection of all the Spanish used, not only in Spain, but also in all Spanish-speaking Latin America".
Its purpose was to ‘fix the words and terms of the Castilian language in their greatest propriety, elegance and purity’.
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 consejo regulador   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The conference given by the writer in the capital of Rioja entitled "The Adventure of Dionysius" was a good example of his superb mastery of the Spanish language.
The celebrations concluded with the awarding of the prize at a ceremonial dinner attended by representatives of bodegas, winegrowers, associations and institutions related to Riojan vitiviniculture, as well as the press and the authorities.
In presenting him on behalf of the other members of the Jury of the Premio Prestigio Rioja, Ángel Martín Municio, Vice-president of the Spanish Royal Academy of Language, which counts Vargas Llosa among its members, commented on the mastery which characterises the work of this great writer.
www.riojainternet.com /NetWine/prenrioja/ingles/numero9/prestigiorioja.html   (699 words)

  
 Motor Age: CBT, Spanish tests top ASE board meeting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The need for this common terminology is due to the fact that Spanish, per se, used by workers in automotive service, may involve any one of three variations of the language: American Spanish, or as some call it, "Spanglish"; Puerto Rican Spanish; and also South American Spanish.
While there are commonalities, there are many differences in these three varieties of the Spanish language.
Once a common terminology has been arrived at, it is the intention of the ASE Spanish-language task force to submit the list to the Royal Spanish Academy of Language in Spain.
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 2005 Population Figures for Corozal, Belize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
50 percent of the people, and it is spoken as a second language by another 20...
In the Tzotzil language and between sobs, three of...
Though the official language is English, Spanish, Creole, Garifuna and Mayan are...
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 HERMES TRADUCCIONES PATROCINÓ LOS IV ENCUENTROS INTERNACIONALES DE TRADUCCIÓN EN LA UNIVERSIDAD DE ALCALÁ DE HENARES ...
This Seminar, organised by the Fundación Duques de Soria in collaboration with the Soria School of Translation and Interpreting of Valladolid University, was directed by Valentín García Yebra, a member of the Spanish Royal Academy and the most prestigious figure in Spanish translation, and co-ordinated by Consuelo Gonzalo García, a lecturer at Valladolid University.
Carlos Zurita and Her Royal Highness Margarita de Borbón, the Duke and Duchess of Soria, as Honorary Presidents.
Its main objective is to collaborate with international Hispanic culture and the universities in the study and dissemination of the Spanish culture in the broadest sense of the term, with special reference to the Spanish language, by organising academic activities to complement those of the universities.
www.hermestrans.com /20102000en.html   (764 words)

  
 Madrid
It owes its name to a fort that was built by Mohammed I called the alcázar (fort) of Majerit.
Majerit is an Arabic not a Spanish word.
No it is not the motto of a washing machine company, but rather the motto of the Real Academy Española de la Lengua (The Spanish Royal Academy of Language).
www.ctspanish.com /communities/madrid/madrid.htm   (1186 words)

  
 AP Worldstream: Spanish philologist Fernando Lazaro Carreter dead at 80@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Spanish philologist Fernando Lazaro Carreter dead at 80
Fernando Lazaro Carreter, a beloved and respected language expert who spent his life monitoring and trying to improve the way Spanish is spoken and written, died Thursday.
The wry, no-nonsense philologist, journalist and literary critic died before dawn, three weeks after being hospitalized with lung trouble, Madrid's Clinica de la Concepcion said.
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 CNN.com - Cervantes Prize goes to Spanish writer Francisco Umbral - December 13, 2000
MADRID, Spain (AP) -- The Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honor -- the Cervantes Prize -- was awarded to the Spanish writer Francisco Umbral.
Umbral, a 65-year-old native of Madrid, was honored for contribution to Spanish letters, the nine-member prize committee said Tuesday.
The Cervantes prize was founded 25 years ago by the Spanish Culture Ministry and includes a $75,000 cash award.
archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/12/13/spain.cervantes.prize.ap   (252 words)

  
 Resources of Scholarly Societies - Languages
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres = Academy of Inscriptions and Humanities [In French and English.
Association for the History of Language ["...formerly known as the Melbourne Association for the History of Language"]
Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde = Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature [In Dutch.]
www.scholarly-societies.org /language_soc.html   (1083 words)

  
 FIDEL CASTRO RUZ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
President of the Commission of Professional Ethics of the Cuban Academy of Sciences.
Tenure Member of the Cuban Academy of Language Correspondent Member of Spanish Royal Academy of Language.
Correspondent Lecturer of San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts, as Competent in Arts.
www.cuba.cu /ciencia/acc/Dir_acad_honor_ingles.htm   (642 words)

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