Español / Spanish
| Other names | Castellano / Castilian |
| Spoken in ... | Has the status of a main native language in 21 countries over the world; and is spoken alongside other main official languages in about 30 countries. Spanish is, numerically speaking, the second most natively spoken language in the world -after Chinese-; and it is one of the top ranking languages, spoken as a second language, besides English and French. |
| Number of speakers | About 450/500 millions speakers, 400 of them native speakers. |
| Legal status | Official status in 21 countries, co-official, or spoken besides other languages in many other countries or regions over the world |
| Source(s) | Centro Virtual Cervantes (Instituto Cervantes): http://cvc.cervantes.es/lengua |
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