50+ Facts About Languages In Spain That You Need to Know

1. Galician, a language closely related to Portuguese, is official in the autonomous community of Galicia.
2. Catalonia has three official languages: Catalan, Spanish and   Aranese.
3. The Basque   Country is officially bilingual. Both Basque and Spanish    are official.
4. Valencia has two official languages: Valencian and Spanish .
5. Spanish    is the official language in the whole of Navarre. However, in the north of the autonomous community, Basque    is official.
6. Even though Spanish    is the only official language in Asturias, Asturian, an Astur-Leonese language, is recognised by the regional government.
7. The only official language of Aragon is Spanish . However, there are Catalan   speakers in the east and Aragonese and Benasqués speakers in the north.
8. There are two official languages in the Balearic Islands: Catalan   and Spanish .
9. The historic language of the Canary Islands was Guanche, a Berber language.
10. A significant proportion of the population in the autonomous city of Ceuta in North Africa speaks Moroccan Arabic.
11. Amazigh is a widely spoken language in the autonomous city of Melilla in North Africa.
12. A transitional language between Galician   and Asturian   exists in western Asturias: Eonaviego.
13. Ligurian was once a widely spoken language on the island of Nueva Tabarca in Valencia, Spain.
14. According to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística, approximately 15% of Spaniards are proficient in    English.
15. Parliamentarians in Spain are allowed to speak in any of the languages of Spain.
16. The most-watched television channel in Catalonia is not in Spanish    but in Catalan:    TV3.
17. During the dictatorship 1939-1975, there was a ban on languages other than Spanish .
18. Various languages co-existed during the Al-Andalus period.
19. Caló has historically been the language of the Spanish -Romani community.
20. Valencian is spoken in El Carche    in Murcia.
21. Many place names in Spain take their names from Arabic.
22. In Spain, dubbing foreign series and films into Spanish    is common, but dubbing also occurs in the other languages of Spain.
23. Miguel de Cervantes wrote "Don Quijote", one of the most well-known books in Spanish    literature. 
24. Due to the long-lasting presence of the Arabic   language in the Iberian Peninsula, Spanish    has many words which come from Arabic.
25. Despite not achieving an Oscar nomination, the 2010 film Pa Negre was the first Catalan-language film chosen as the Spanish    submission for the Academy Awards.
26. Mozarabic, a Latin-derived language, was spoken alongside Andalusian Arabic during the Al-Andalus period and was written using the Arabic script (Aljamiado).
27. According to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística, in the province of Girona, 8.2% of the population can understand four or more languages.
28. According to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística, 15.3% of the population of    Andalusia   understands English without difficulty.
29. Erromintxela is a Basque -Romani mixed language historically spoken by the Romani community in Basque -speaking areas.
30. In the Canary Islands, there is a whistled language: Silbo Gomero.
31. Benasqués is a transitional language between Catalan, Aragonese   and Occitan   spoken in Northern Aragon.
32. Andalusian Spanish    spoken in Andalusia provided the base for many Latin-American varieties of Spanish .
33. According to Pew, 19% of the population of Spain    speaks another language other than  Spa nish    at home.
34. According to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística, approximately 4.5% of Spaniards are    proficient in    French.
35. The Val   d'Aran is a trilingual area within Catalonia. The three official languages are Aranese, Catalan   and Spanish .
36. The Real Academia Española oversees the development of the Spanish    language around the Spanish -speaking world.
37. The spelling system used in contemporary Spanish    is not the same as the one used 500 years ago.
38. Canarian Spanish    shaped the varieties of    Spanish    spoken in the Caribbean.
39. Less than 10% of Spanish    speakers are in Spain.
40. According to the Instituto Galego de Estadística, Lugo is the most Galician-speaking city in Galicia.
41. According to the   Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya, the  Terres del'Ebre is the most Catalan-speaking regional division in Catalonia.
42. According to the Basque    government, the province of    Gipuzkoa   has the most Basque    speakers in the   Basque    Country.
43. Andalusian Arabic was one of the colloquial languages spoken in the Al-Andalus. It is now an extinct language.
44. All of Spain's official languages except Basque    descend from Vulgar Latin, brought to the peninsula by the Romans.
45. Treviño is an exclave of Castilla y León within the Basque    Country. Even though Basque    is not official in the exclave, many speak the language. 
46. Before the Romans arrived, the population of what is now Spain spoke languages such as Tartessian, Iberian, and Celtiberian.
47. Fala, a Galician-Portuguese   language, is spoken in a few towns in northwestern   Extremadura along the Portuguese   border.
48. Portuguese   was a commonly spoken language in Olivenza in Extremadura in the early 1900s.
49. There are two newspapers (La Vanguardia & El Periódico de Catalunya) with headquarters in Barcelona that publish in Catalan   and Spanish .
50. According to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística, there are more than 500,000 Romanian  speakers in Spain.
51. Extremaduran is an Astur-Leonese language spoken in Extremadura. ​

RELATED PAGES ▶

 ▶   100+ Facts About Languages That You Might Not Know
​▶​   50+ Facts About Languages In The Eurovision Song Contest That You Need To Know
​▶​   30+ Facts About Languages In Corsica That You Need To Know
​▶   30+ Facts About The Maltese Language That You Need To Know
▶​   30+ Facts About Languages In Andorra That You Need To Know
▶​   30+ Facts About Languages In Morocco That You Need To Know
​▶​   20+ Interesting Facts About Languages In Croatia
​▶   20+ Interesting Facts About Languages In Belgium​

▶ ​ ​  ‎Discover Asturian
 ▶​ ​   Discover Aragonese
 ▶​ ​   Discover Basque
 ▶​ ​   Discover Catalan
 ▶​ ​   ‎Discover Corsican
 ▶​ ​   Discover Egyptian Arabic
 ▶​ ​   Discover Emilian + Romagnol
 ▶​ ​   Discover Extremaduran
 ▶​ ​   Discover French
 ▶​ ​   Discover Galician

▶​ ​   Discover Greek
▶​ ​   ‎Discover Hebrew
▶​ ​   ‎Discover Italian
▶ ​ ​   Discover Lebanese Arabic
▶​ ​    Discover Llanito
▶ ​ ​  Discover    Ligurian
▶​ ​   Discover Lombard
▶​ ​   ‎Discover Maltese​
▶​ ​    ‎Discover Modern Standard Arabic
 ▶ ​ ​  Discover Moroccan Arabic

▶​ ​   ‎Discover Occitan
▶​ ​   ‎Discover Papiamentu
▶​ ​    Discover Piedmontese
▶​ ​    Discover Portuguese
▶​ ​   ‎Discover Romanian
▶​ ​   Discover Sardinian
 ▶​ ​    Discover Sicilian
▶​ ​   Discover Spanish

SHARE ▶