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  2. Spanish dialects and varieties - Wikipedia

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    Spanish dialects spoken in the Basque Country, Navarre, La Rioja, and northern Aragon (regions that contributed substantially to Spanish-American colonization) show the fricative or postalveolar variant for rr (especially for the word-initial rr sound, as in Roma or rey).

  3. Spanish Americans - Wikipedia

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    Spanish – 2,187,144; Spanish American – 111,781; 2010. The 2010 census is the twenty-third United States national census. Spaniard – 635,253; Statistics for those who self-identify as ethnic Spaniard, Spanish, Spanish American in the 2010 American Community Survey. Spaniard – 694,494; Spanish – 482,072

  4. Most common words in Spanish - Wikipedia

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    Most of the sources are from the 1990s. Of the 20 million words in the corpus, about one-third (~6,750,000 words) come from transcripts of spoken Spanish: conversations, interviews, lectures, sermons, press conferences, sports broadcasts, and so on. Among the written sources are novels, plays, short stories, letters, essays, newspapers, and the ...

  5. Spanish language in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Spanish-language radio has influenced American and Latino discourse on key current affairs issues such as citizenship and immigration. Variation. There is a great diversity of accents of Spanish in the United States. The influence of English on American Spanish is very important.

  6. Spanish language in the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Spanish language. The different varieties of the Spanish language spoken in the Americas are distinct from each other as well as from those varieties spoken in the Iberian peninsula, collectively known as Peninsular Spanish and Spanish spoken elsewhere, such as in Africa and Asia. There is great diversity among the various Latin American ...

  7. List of Spanish words of Indigenous American Indian origin

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    This is a list of Spanish words that come from indigenous languages of the Americas. It is further divided into words that come from Arawakan, Aymara, Carib, Mayan, Nahuatl, Quechua, Taíno, Tarahumara, Tupi and uncertain (the word is known to be from the Americas, but the exact source language is unclear). Some of these words have alternate ...

  8. Hispanic America - Wikipedia

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    The region known as Hispanic America ( Spanish: Hispanoamérica or América Hispana) and historically as Spanish America ( América Española) is all the Spanish-speaking countries of the Americas. [1] [2] In all of these countries, Spanish is the main language - sometimes sharing official status with one or more indigenous languages (such as ...

  9. Spanish America - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish Empire (yellow) in 1800. Spanish America refers to the Spanish territories in the Americas during the Spanish colonization of the Americas. The term "Spanish America" was specifically used during the territories' imperial era between 15th and 19th centuries. To the end of its imperial rule, Spain called its overseas possessions in ...