Spanish
From FAS Virtual Worlds Almanac
- This page contains text from Wikipedia's article on Spanish_language.
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is an Indo-European, Romance language that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade. It was taken to Africa, the Americas, and Asia Pacific with the expansion of the Spanish Empire between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Today, between 322 and 400 million people speak Spanish as a native language,[1][2] making it the world's second most-spoken language by native speakers (after Mandarin Chinese).[3][4]
Virtual Worlds using Spanish include:
