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I don't think it's "es" for "español (Spaniards don't speak Spanish), it's "es" for "España".
by jtreminio 14y ago
I don't think it's "es" for "español (Spaniards don't speak Spanish), it's "es" for "España".
- MartinCron 14y agoYes, 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 agoThey speak español.
- Cyranix 14y agoCastellano or Catalan, perhaps?
- wreckimnaked 14y agoand also Basque (Euskara), Galego (Galician) and a maybe couple of other languages with a quite representative number of speakers.
- tadfisher 14y agoThere 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 agoFor 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 agoFor 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.