español - Wiktionary
en.wiktionary.org › wiki › españolJan 03, 2022 · The word español was supposedly imported from Provence by a medieval chronicler (it was originally introduced by pilgrims in Santiago) because there was no existing translation of the earlier Roman word Hispani when writing a chronicle of Spanish history, but this was the word Provençal speakers used to refer to the Christian kingdoms of what ...
Spanish language - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_languageSpanish (español or castellano, lit. 'Castilian' ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial spoken Latin in the Iberian Peninsula. Today, it is a global language with nearly 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain. It is the world's second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese, and the world's fourth-most spoken language overall after English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindi, as well as the world's most wi…