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Spanish is one of the top languages in the world with around 500 million speakers. It is the primary language of the countries of Central America and most of South America, Spain, and many other countries. It is also the #2 language in the United States. It is among the most popular second languages chosen by students in the USA.
Spanish () or Castilian (castellano) is an Indo-European, Romance language that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade. It was taken to Africa, the Americas, and Asia Pacific with the expansion of the Spanish Empire between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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