What is the second most studied language in the world?
This question may make you scratch your head. However, you will surely be amazed when you get to know the answer.
It is none other than Spanish!
Yes, surprisingly the number of people studying this language as a second language has already surpassed 20 million. Whoops. That’s huge! Quite a large number of enthusiasts!
If you are already a native Spanish speaker or learning it as a second language then felicitaciones! While for the others, we have collected some cool and interesting facts about this language.
- Spanish is the official language of 22 countries and the second largest native language in the world. Besides, it is the second most spoken language for international communication and third most used language on the internet. Were you aware of all these facts?
- Spanish is spoken by 500 million people and with the growing trend to learn this language, the number will reach 600 million by 2050. Well, that is a mind boggling number!
- After Latin, the language that influenced Spanish the most is Arabic. At present, the foreign language that exerts maximum influence is English.
- The largest population of Spanish speakers inhabits Mexico, with approximately 114 million speakers, which is followed by United States with 50 million. By this fact, it is estimated that by 2050, United States will become the largest Spanish speaking country in the world. The number of Spanish speaker in the country is more than that of Chinese, French, Italian, Hawaiian, and other native languages combined. Pretty interesting!
- This language has two names. Some countries use the term Español to refer to Spanish while some prefer to use Castellano.
- Spanish takes pride on owning 11 Nobel prizes for literature.
- Spanish is one of the world’s most phonetic languages.
- Spanish and English share a large portion of their vocabulary as both languages have derived the major part of their dictionary from Latin and Arabic. The significant difference between the grammars of the two languages is the use of gender in Spanish.
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