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	Spanish language - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		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 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.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/s/p/a/Spanish_language.html (2701 words)

	Spanish language — FactMonster.com
		There are a number of Spanish dialects; however, the Castilian dialect was already the accepted standard of the language by the middle of the 13th cent., largely owing to the political importance of Castile.
		On the whole, however, the differences between the Spanish dialects of Europe and of Latin America with reference to pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar are relatively minor.
		A another peculiarity of Spanish is the use of an inverted question mark (¿) at the beginning of a question and of an inverted exclamation point (¡) at the beginning of an exclamation.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0846171.html (530 words)

	Standard Spanish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Standard Spanish or Neutral Spanish, is a linguistic variety or lect that is considered a correct educated standard for the Spanish language.
		Standard Spanish is not merely Spanish adjusted to fit in prescriptive molds dictated by a linguistic overseeing authority, but also a form of language that respects the literary canon and cultural tradition.
		All aspects of this standard variety, from grammar and prosody to phonetics and lexicon, are therefore removed, to some degree, from everyday common usage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Standard_Spanish (397 words)

	Spanish dialects and varieties Information
		There are a series of significant differences in the way the Spanish language is spoken in the 20 or so countries and territories where it is an official language.
		In most dialects the informal pronoun is tú, which comes directly from the Latin, and the formal pronoun is usted, which is usually considered to originate from "vuestra merced", meaning "Your (singular) grace" (though others have traced it to the Arabic Ustad, professor/sir).
		Others have pointed out that Mexican Spanish is tending towards stress timing and concomitant vowel reduction, and that this is likely to be caused by the influence of geographically close English of the United States and strong economic and social-cultural ties between the two countries.
	www.bookrags.com /Spanish_dialects_and_varieties (2971 words)

	Spanish
		Spanish is one of six official working languages of the United Nations and the European Union.
		Spanish grammar is derived from the grammar of Latin.
		Spanish is considered to be a Category I language in terms of difficulty for speakers of English.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/january/Spanish.html (1666 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Spanish dialects and varieties
		In most dialects the informal pronoun is tú, which comes directly from the Latin, and the formal pronoun is usted, which is usually considered to originate from "vuestra merced", meaning "Your (singular) grace" (though others have traced it to the Arabic 'ustādh, "professor/sir").
		The name Rioplatense is applied to the particular dialect, spoken around the mouth of the Río de la Plata and the lower course of the Paraná River, where vos is always used, with verb conjugations that resemble those of the Castilian second person plural.
		The pronoun usted had not been introduced to this dialect of Spanish when the Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492, hence vos is still used in Ladino much as usted is used in modern Spanish.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Argentine_Spanish (3416 words)

	Spanish language information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Originating in Spain and whence it was later brought by Spanish explorers, colonists, and empire-builders to the Western Hemisphere and other parts of the world during the last five centuries, Spanish is one of the top five most spoken languages worldwide, and is one of the six official working languages of the United Nations.
		This dialect has a number of characteristics and a specific pronunciation different to the one of Andalusia or Aragon for example, where different subdialects are spoken.
		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, or 2,658 people (1990 Census), though recently there seems to have been a resurgence in interest in the language among educated youth.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Spanish_language (4123 words)

	Spanish language — Infoplease.com
		There are a number of Spanish dialects; however, the Castilian dialect was already the accepted standard of the language by the middle of the 13th cent., largely owing to the political importance of Castile.
		On the whole, however, the differences between the Spanish dialects of Europe and of Latin America with reference to pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar are relatively minor.
		A another peculiarity of Spanish is the use of an inverted question mark (¿) at the beginning of a question and of an inverted exclamation point (¡) at the beginning of an exclamation.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0846171.html (630 words)

	SPA Spanish Courses
		Discussion and analysis of various regional and social varieties of Spanish in the Americas.
		Examination of bilingualism and the social and regional dialects of Spanish in the Southwest.
		Spanish and Spanish American literary, cultural, and linguistic topics.
	www.asu.edu /aad/catalogs/spring_2000/spa.html (1129 words)

	Dialects -- CAL Resource Guide Online
		The American Dialect Society is dedicated to the study of the English language and its dialects in North America.
		The National Map of the Regional Dialects of American English is a research project at the University of Pennsylvania that charts the sound changes of urban dialects based on telephone surveys, with the aim of producing a phonological atlas.
		Discusses the different varieties of Spanish, the decision of which variety to teach to native speakers, and the concept of a "standard" usage.
	www.cal.org /resources/archive/rgos/dialects.html (3679 words)

	U-M SLI Spanish
		This is a first-year review course that presents the essential elements of Spanish grammar, vocabulary, and culture needed in everyday life to understand Spanish spoken at a moderate speed and to be understood by sympathetic native speakers.
		SPANISH 275 is principally designed to increase the grammatical accuracy of students' Spanish and to increase vocabulary.
		SPANISH 276 is intended to improve students' ability to read Spanish prose, as well as their skills in conversational and written Spanish.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/sli/Spanish06.htm (1260 words)

	Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University
		Spanish 250 is a developmental reading course designed to teach students appropriate strategies for reading Spanish as a second language and provide them with intensive reading practice on a variety of authentic texts, ranging from short journalistic texts (newspaper and magazine articles) to a longer literary text (short novel).
		Spanish 250 is designed to prepare undergraduate students for the reading demands of 400- and 600- level courses in Spanish and Spanish American literatures and cultures.
		Spanish Civilization 561 aims to help students to a better understanding of the cultural characteristics of the Spanish society so that it becomes an object of understanding, rather than of contrast.
	sppo.osu.edu /spanish/courses/default.cfm (2943 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)

	Varieties of Spanish. Castilian Spanish or Latin American Spanish lessons London
		On the contrary, nowadays, due to the increased use of the internet and other media, Spanish speakers are more used than ever to the different accents and dialects from all around the Spanish speaking world.
		A common misconception that arises from having different varieties of Spanish is that one is better than the rest.
		That is you'll speak Spanish with an English accent, French accent etc. If you're lucky enough to live or visit a Spanish speaking country for an extended period then you'll gradually acquire the accent spoken there.
	www.thespanishmachine.co.uk /varietiesofspanish.htm (568 words)

	Spanish > Courses > Major Level Courses - Fall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		We will work on strategies of academic reading in Spanish through analysis of a series of "cultural texts" -- from statistical data to periodical press articles to films to a novel.
		You will also explore Spanish as a first languge through the study of the history of the Spanish language, the different varieties (dialects) of Spanish spoken in the Spanish-speaking world, as well as the influence of English and other langugaes on Spanish in situations of language contact.
		Through two Latin American novels, two Spanish novels and a play, the play written by a Spaniard living in exile in Buenos Aires, we will explore various forms that environmental influences take and with what results.
	www.stolaf.edu /depts/spanish/courses/major_courses_fall.html (1311 words)

	Ethnologue report for Israel
		Northern cluster subdialects are Urmi, Salmas, Anatolia; southern cluster dialects are Naghada, Ushno, Mahabad.
		Eastern cluster subdialects are Southeastern varieties: Koy Sanjaq, Qaladze.
		Southeastern dialect in Ukraine and Romania, Mideastern dialect in Poland and Hungary, Northeastern dialect in Lithuania and Belarus.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Israel (1028 words)

	Do You Speak American . Sea to Shining Sea . American Varieties . TV \| PBS
		All of us speak a dialect (which, in the linguistic sense, means ‘a variety shared by a group of speakers’).
		However, the variety of English they’ve learned is non-standard and happens to reflect the historical contact with Spanish.
		Her research focuses on the dialects of California, from those associated with Latinos and Latinas to the infamous "Valley Girl" way of speaking.
	www.pbs.org /speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/tv (1865 words)

	Spanish...2nd World Language spoken \| Antimoon Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Spanish or Castilian is an Iberian Romance language, and the fourth most widely spoken language in the world.
		Spanish is also spoken by segments of the populations in Aruba, Canada, Israel (both standard Spanish and Ladino), northern Morocco (both standard Spanish and Ladino), Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey (Ladino), the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Western Sahara.
		Among the countries and territories in Oceania, Spanish is the seventh most spoken language after English in Australia, where in the 2001 Australian Census, of the persons who reported they spoke a language other than English at home, around 97,000 reported Spanish.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/t126-120.htm (2444 words)

	Dialects of English
		Dialects also varies slightly from east to west: In Natal (in western South Africa), /ai/ is pronounced /a:/, so that why is pronounced /wa:/.
		The dialects of central Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and the Dakotas were strongly influenced by the Germans, while the city dialects of the north were influenced by the Irish.
		It is literally a blend of all the dialects, although it is most influenced by the northern midland dialect.
	www.ship.edu /~cgboeree/dialectsofenglish.html (3577 words)

	Italian Translation Service - English to Italian Translation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Population includes some of whom are native bilinguals of Italian and regional varieties, and some of whom may use Italian as second language.
		Regional varieties coexist with the standard language; some are inherently unintelligible (Nida) to speakers of other varieties unless they have learned them.
		Northern varieties are closer to French and Occitan than to standard or southern varieties (Agard, N. Vincent).
	www.appliedlanguage.com /languages/italian_translation.shtml (610 words)

	Spanish dialects and varieties - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The most distinctive feature of the Spanish variants is the pronunciation of s.
		The use of vos instead of tú is called voseo.
		Andalusian Spanish - ustedes habláis, pronounced uhtedeh habláih/uttede' hablai'
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spanish_dialects_and_varieties (3005 words)

	Variety Spanish - AOL Music
		What are the differences between Latin American Spanish and the Spanish of Spain?
		Seseo is typical of Latin American Spanish and parts of Andalusia while ceceo (pronouncing 'z';, 'ce' and 'ci' with a...
		Download, listen and watch Variety Spanish music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
	music.aol.com /artist/variety-spanish/202227/main (109 words)

	Top 20 Spanish
		Documents and texts related to the study of Portuguese and Spanish historical linguistics.
		Spanish has less similarities with French and Italian but shares strong ties due to Latin roots.
		Among the countries and territories in Oceania, Spanish is the seventh most spoken language after English in Australia.
	top20spanish.com (3009 words)

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		When we speak of the varieties or dialects of Spanish, it is important to specify the
		Spanish figured heavily in the development of Canary Island and American Spanish.
		Spanish, I think it will be useful to alert you to an additional set of phonological
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/pharies/sanantonio.htm (4603 words)

	History of Latin American Spanish: Dialects & Origins - Spanish Tutorial
		Consequently many of the deckhands spoke with Andalusian style dialects, and carried this style of speech into their new communities in places like Santo Domingo, Cuba, and elsewhere.
		But Latin American Spanish also evolved in completely new directions, and in ways unique to each country or region.
		the varieties spoken by Spanish settlers from Spain
	www.musicalspanish.com /tutorial/dialects.htm (594 words)

	Great Help & Resources for Students of Spanish - (grammar, literature, textbooks, dictionaries, newspapers, ...
		Some of these pages are entirely written in Spanish for educational purposes so if you go there to polish up your Spanish, you are in the right place.
		This page is in Spanish and its purpose is to contribute to the preservation, unity, and purity of the Spanish language.
		The Spanish Section in Department of Foreign Languages at GSU sponsors Sigma Delta Pi, Zeta Phi Chapter.
	www.georgiasouthern.edu /~suazoj/links2.htm (1292 words)

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