Spanish
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Spanish is a Romance language, native to Spain but spoken throughout Central and South America, and the United States. The dialect known as Castilian is from Spain only and has grammatical and phonological differences from southern Spain and all other dialects of Spanish.
| Spanish Español | |
| Spoken in: | Spain (among many others) (España) |
| Conworld: | Real world |
| Total speakers: | 400 million native. |
| Genealogical classification: | Indo-European |
| Basic word order: | SVO, |
| Morphological type: | Inflecting |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | nominative-accusative |
| Writing system: | |
| Created by: | |
| unknown | 15th century C.E. |
Phonology and Orthography
Consonants
| Consonants | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Labiod. | Inter-dental | Alveolar | Post-alv. | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | (b) | t̻ | d̻ | k | g | ||||||||||
| Fricative | β | f | (θ) | (ð) | s | (ʃ) | (ʒ) | ç | x | ɣ | (h) | |||||
| Affricate | ʧ | (ʤ) | ||||||||||||||
| Approximants & glides | j | |||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral Approximant | l/ɫ | |||||||||||||||
Vowels
Notable features of Spanish
Languages based on Spanish
Creoles and natural descendants
Ladino. Spoken by descendants of Sephardi Jews expelled from Spain in the 15th century. It's spoken in certain areas around the world, mainly in Israel.
Portuñol. A mix of Spanish and Portuguese spoken in some southern Brazil areas.
Constructed languages
External links
SAMPA for Spanish [1] Comment about Spanish vowels.
