Countries
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
Spain
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
- Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
  
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
Similar To
French Language
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
Spanish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hola
  
Hai
  
Thank You
Gracias
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
Cómo estás?
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
Buenas Noches
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
Bonne soirée
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
Buenas Tardes
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
Buenos Días
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
Por Favor
  
sila
  
Sorry
triste
  
maaf
  
Bye
adiós
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
Te Quiero
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
Discúlpeme
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Mexican Spanish
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Mexico
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
105,000,000.00
  
5
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Cuban Spanish
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Cuba
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00
  
8
Dialect 3
Puerto Rican Spanish
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Puerto Rico
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
3,900,000.00
  
9
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
489.00 million
  
3
175.00 million
  
10
Native Speakers
410.00 million
  
2
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
89.50 million
  
9
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
Español
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Castellano, Castilian, Español
  
Not Available
  
French Name
espagnol; castillan
  
malais
  
German Name
Spanisch
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Origin
210 BC
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Spanish and Spanish
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Signed Forms
Signed Spanish
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
es
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
spa
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
spa
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
spa
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1288
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-b
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative