Spanish Language
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Updated: 8 Dec 2017
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The Romans undertake the
conquest of Hispania,
Latin name of the Greek Iberia,
and impose in that territory the vulgar Latin,
an Italic language belonging to the Indo-European trunk.
The evolution of Latin, which had contact in Hispania and other
regions of the Mediterranean with the languages of the
Greeks and Basques, gave rise to what are now called Romance languages,
among them Spanish or Castilian.Roman domination ends in Hispania,
after sowing the seed of the Castilian
Romance language, as 'daughter'
of the vulgar Latin and the Greek,
although in that territory several suffixes
from the pre-Roman period were preserved, even today. arro 'and' orro ',
and the ending in' z 'of many Spanish surnames.King Alfonso X made Castilian
the official language of the kingdom of
Castile and Leon, the
predominant one in the
Iberian Peninsula, and ordered to
compose in that Romance language,
and not in Latin, the legal,
historical and astronomical
works of the kingdomThe Spanish or Castilian language is
nourished by Italianisms
that form words like 'shotgun' and
'aspaviento'; Gallicisms that gave
rise to words such as 'paje',
'sergeant', 'garden' and 'cage', and Americanisms such as
'cóndor', 'alpaca', 'vicuña', 'pampa',
'puma', 'canoa', 'hurricane', 'corn', 'hummingbird', 'cacique', 'caribe',
'cannibal', 'chocolate', 'avocado',
'tomato', 'rubber' and 'cocoa',
which come from several of the
123 families of indigenous languages of America.In 1713 the Royal Spanish
Academy of the Language was
founded, a fact that marked the
beginning of contemporary Spanish.A Congress of the Spanish Language
is held in Seville (Spain).
The first formal Congress was held in
Zacatecas (Mexico) in 1997,
the second in Valladolid (Spain) in 2001,
the third in Rosario (Argentina) in
2004 and the fourth will be held
between March 26 and 29 in
Cartagena of the Indies (Colombia).Periods
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