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This is already happening. The TLD for Spain is .es

adlpz 14y ago
Also Germany (.de), Switzerland (.ch), Croatia (.hr), and several more. It's quite common. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains#Country_code_top-level_domains http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_doma...
jtreminio 14y ago
I don't think it's "es" for "español (Spaniards don't speak Spanish), it's "es" for "España".
- MartinCron 14y ago
  Yes, I knew it was "España" but I was too lazy to get the special character. But, um, what do the people in Spain speak if not Spanish?
  - burke 14y ago
    They speak español.
  - Cyranix 14y ago
    Castellano or Catalan, perhaps?
    - wreckimnaked 14y ago
      and also Basque (Euskara), Galego (Galician) and a maybe couple of other languages with a quite representative number of speakers.
  - tadfisher 14y ago
    There are five co-official languages recognized in the various regions of Spain: Castellano (everywhere), Aranese (Catalonia), Basque (Basque Country), Catalan (Catalonia), and Galician (Galicia). In addition, there are several localized languages, that are not "official" but "recognized": Aragonese (Aragon), Asturian (Asturias), and Leonese (Castile and León). And there are countless dialects of each.
    - nandemo 14y ago
      For what is worth, Galician is essentially a variant of Portuguese, in the sense that it's mutually intelligible with European and Brazilian Portuguese. There are differences in pronunciation but not significantly more than between European and Brazilian Portuguese.
- w1ntermute 14y ago
  For what it's worth, Spain's Royal Language Academy has called the language "español" since 1923, and 89% of Spaniards reported being fluent in it in 2005. So saying Spaniards don't speak Spanish is like saying Americans don't speak English.
antman 14y ago
I think you mean in their native character set, rather than native language
beagle3 14y ago
That's just ISO country codes. IE is IrEland because IR is IRan, and Iran comes before Ireland alphabetically.

adlpz 14y ago

Also Germany (.de), Switzerland (.ch), Croatia (.hr), and several more. It's quite common. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains#Country_code_top-level_domains http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_doma...

jtreminio 14y ago

I don't think it's "es" for "español (Spaniards don't speak Spanish), it's "es" for "España".

MartinCron 14y ago
Yes, I knew it was "España" but I was too lazy to get the special character. But, um, what do the people in Spain speak if not Spanish?
- burke 14y ago
  They speak español.
- Cyranix 14y ago
  Castellano or Catalan, perhaps?
  - wreckimnaked 14y ago
    and also Basque (Euskara), Galego (Galician) and a maybe couple of other languages with a quite representative number of speakers.
- tadfisher 14y ago
  There are five co-official languages recognized in the various regions of Spain: Castellano (everywhere), Aranese (Catalonia), Basque (Basque Country), Catalan (Catalonia), and Galician (Galicia). In addition, there are several localized languages, that are not "official" but "recognized": Aragonese (Aragon), Asturian (Asturias), and Leonese (Castile and León). And there are countless dialects of each.
  - nandemo 14y ago
    For what is worth, Galician is essentially a variant of Portuguese, in the sense that it's mutually intelligible with European and Brazilian Portuguese. There are differences in pronunciation but not significantly more than between European and Brazilian Portuguese.
w1ntermute 14y ago
For what it's worth, Spain's Royal Language Academy has called the language "español" since 1923, and 89% of Spaniards reported being fluent in it in 2005. So saying Spaniards don't speak Spanish is like saying Americans don't speak English.

antman 14y ago

I think you mean in their native character set, rather than native language

beagle3 14y ago

That's just ISO country codes. IE is IrEland because IR is IRan, and Iran comes before Ireland alphabetically.