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Preferred term

spaSpanish  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Spanish or Castilian is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of spoken Latin in central-northern Iberia around the ninth century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile (present northern Spain) into central and southern Iberia during the later Middle Ages.

Entry terms

  • Castilian
  • Spanish language

ISO 639-1 code

  • es

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • spa

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • spa

ISO 639-3 code

  • spa

Notation

  • spa

In other languages

  • espagnol

    French

  • Espagnol
  • Spanisch

    German

  • Spanische Sprache
  • spagnolo

    Italian

  • Lingua spagnola
  • Portuguese

  • Castelhano
  • Língua castelhana
  • español

    Spanish

  • Idioma español

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/spa

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