Spanish

Romance language originating in the Iberian Peninsula
Class type of: Castilian, West Iberian Q1321
Spanish
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Facts

31 properties
Coordinate location
🗺️ 40.400°, -3.700°
Short name
испанский, іспанська, ispanca, испайнаг, испански, іспанская, spāņu
Different from
Español, Spanish
Entry in abbreviations table
исп.
Ethnologue language status
1 National
Female form of label
la langue espagnole
Has grammatical case
nominative case
Has grammatical gender
masculine, feminine, neuter
Has grammatical number
singular, plural
Hashtag
spanish, español
Indigenous to
Spain
NCI Thesaurus ID
C120587
Native label
español, castellano
Number of speakers, writers, or signers
485.0M (70.6M–485.0M, n=7)[30][31][32][33][34][35][36]
Show all 31 facts +7
Permanent duplicated item
Wikidata item
Studied by
hispanism
UNESCO language status
1 safe
Uses capitalization for
proper noun, historical period, government, state
Writing system
Latin script[21]
🏷️ Also known as
en Spanish language en Spanish en Castilian language en Castilian ar إسبانية ar اللغة الإسبانية ar لغة إسبانية ar الإسبانية ar اللغة الاسبانية cs španělština cs španělský jazyk da spansk de Kastilisch de spanische Sprache de Spanisch de kastilische Sprache el ισπανική γλώσσα el Ισπανικά en-gb Spanish language en-gb Castilian language
🔖 Identifiers · 100
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85126261
GND ID
4077640-2
OpenAlex ID
C2992389322
ABS ASCL 2011 code
2303
ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID
294938885
Arab Encyclopedia concept ID
14628
Archive of Our Own tag
Español | Spanish
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300389311
Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Online
ispanu-kalba
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/7434
BDCYL authority ID
735
Show all 100 identifiers +88
BNCF Thesaurus ID
151
BabelNet ID
00073092n
Babelio subject ID
81700
Baidu Tieba name
西班牙语
Basisklassifikation
18.31
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
119312813
Deaf Movie Database language ID
spanish
Dewey Decimal Classification
460
Digital Scriptorium Catalog item ID
Kenya
EU Knowledge Graph item ID
Germany
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)
4MrrVu
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)
27863
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Spanish-language
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
espagne-arts-et-culture-la-langue
Eska.pl topic ID
tg-LQ4Z-hUzR-2wnr
Ethnologue.com language code
spa
FactGrid item ID
John Roberts
Freebase ID
/m/06nm1
GOST 7.75–97 code
исп 230
GitHub topic
spanish
Glottolog code
stan1288
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
spansk
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2024508
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
ispanskii-iazyk-4258c0
Harper's tag
spanish-language
IAB code
1070
IETF language tag
es
IMDb interest ID
in0000233
ISO 639-1 code
es
ISO 639-2 code
spa
ISO 639-3 code
spa
J9U entity ID
987007565737805171
Joconde inscription ID
T520-164
KBpedia ID
SpanishLanguage
Klexikon article ID
Spanische_Sprache
LC and MARC vocabularies ID
languages/spa, iso639-1/es
Latvian National Encyclopedia Online ID
162655
Lex ID
spansk
Lille norske leksikon ID
spansk
Lingua Libre ID
Bixi
Linguasphere code
51-AAA-b
LyricsTranslate ID
language/spanish
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2910578898, 2910807497
NDL Authority ID
00571703
NE.se ID
spanska
NL CR AUT ID
ph127867
Namuwiki ID
스페인어
National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
term/a5f2da4c-aaa1-4101-9ce4-18e2d4cb2f4f
National Library of Latvia ID
000048572
New York Times topic ID
subject/spanish-language
NicoNicoPedia word article ID
スペイン語
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
5692
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3912045
Open Library subject ID
spanish_language
OpenStreetMap Wiki item ID
lipid
OpenStreetMap key
language:es
POSIX locale identifier
es
PSH ID
6758
Personality Database profile ID
179481
Pixiv Encyclopedia ID
スペイン語
SVKKL authority ID
h0002028-spanelstina
Subreddit
Spanish
Topic's main Wikimedia portal
Portal:Spanish
Topic's main category
Category:Spanish language
UK Archival Thesaurus ID
f3/mt335/1703/1670/14251
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
423683
UMLS CUI
C0037750
UNESCO Thesaurus ID
concept10219
Universal Decimal Classification
811.134.2
WALS lect code
spa
WikiKids ID
Spaans
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
06979499-n
YSA ID
Y95115
YSO ID
12398
Yle topic ID
18-207753
Zhihu topic ID
19571417

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🔗 Connections
← Languages spoken, written or signed 2575+
← Official language 1068+
← Language of work or name 796+
← Original language of film or TV show 254+
← Native language 128+
← Language used 60+
← Writing language 45+
← Category combines topics 31+
Country 27
← Field of work 15+
Subtypes 9+
Has part(s) 6
Has tense 6
Linguistic typology 6
Belongs to 5+
Has these parts 5+
Has grammatical mood 4
Uses capitalization for 4
Has grammatical gender 3
Instance of 3
Different from 2
Has grammatical number 2
Influenced 2+
On focus list of Wikimedia project 2
Subclass of 2
← Based on 2+
Category for films in this language 1
Category for music in this language 1
Described by source 1
Digital Scriptorium Catalog item ID 1
EU Knowledge Graph item ID 1
Examples 1+
FactGrid item ID 1
Has grammatical case 1
History of topic 1
Indigenous to 1
Language regulatory body 1
Lingua Libre ID 1
Named after 1+
Studied by 1
Topic's main Wikimedia portal 1
Topic's main category 1
Writing system 1
← Country of origin 1+
← Replaced by 1+
← Translates from 1+
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Spanish is an intangible entity associated with the country of Spain[1].

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Influence

Things named for Spanish include Salina[37], a city in the United States[38], in United States[39], founded in 1864[40].

Why It Matters

Spanish has been cited as an influence by English[41], a natural language[42], in American Samoa[43] and Globasa[44], an international auxiliary language[45], founded in 2019[46].

Entities named for Spanish include Salina[37], a city in the United States[38], in United States[39], founded in 1864[40].

FAQs

Who did Spanish influence?

Spanish has been cited as an influence by English[41] and Globasa[44].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  14. [17] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [18] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  16. [19] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [2] ↑ . Glottolog. wikidata.org.
  19. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  29. [30] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  30. [31] ↑ . cedro.org. cedro.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  31. [32] ↑ . Ethnologue. ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  32. [33] ↑ . Ethnologue. ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [34] ↑ . Ethnologue. ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  34. [35] ↑ . Ethnologue. ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  35. [36] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [42] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [43] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [45] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [46] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [38] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [39] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [40] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 16d ago · Chalmd · 2026-10-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    "Changed claim: BBC Things ID: 985cd60f-8fc1-498b-bae1-285050252dee"
  2. 28d ago · Powerek38 · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Version, edition or translation of → —
    Coordinate location → 40.400°, -3.700°
    Eska.pl topic ID → tg-LQ4Z-hUzR-2wnr
    "Created claim: Eska.pl topic ID: tg-LQ4Z-hUzR-2wnr, Matched to hiszpański (#250708251) in eska.pl top…"
  3. 9w ago · KaDiWa · 2026-09-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Version, edition or translation of → —
    "Removed claim: Version, edition or translation of: May I Call You Mistress?"
  4. 12w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OpenStreetMap Wiki item ID → lipid
    Instance of → natural language, language, modern language +1
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #48942: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM keys"
  5. 14w ago · Superraptor123 · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → natural language, language, modern language +1
    "Created claim: Instance of: spoken language"
  6. 18w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) → 4MrrVu
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #40849: ZGBK ID"
  7. 21w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → spanish-language
    "Created claim: Harper's tag: spanish-language, Matched to spanish language (#289960564) in Harpe…"
  8. 21w ago · DeltaBot bot · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Version, edition or translation of → —
    "Created claim: Version, edition or translation of: May I Call You Mistress?, adding inverse claim"
  9. 22w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → h0002028-spanelstina
    "Created claim: SVKKL authority ID: h0002028-spanelstina, batch #259492"
  10. 25w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    IMDb interest ID → in0000233
    Parent taxon → —
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007565737805171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
  11. 25w ago · Superraptor123 · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → —
    "Created claim: Parent taxon: Castilian"
  12. 25w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    NCI Thesaurus ID → C120587
    "Changed claim qualifiers: YSO ID: 12398, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  13. 28w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Twitch tag ID → d4bb9c58-2141-4881-bcdc-3fe0505457d1
    Ethnologue language status → 1 National
    Has grammatical mood → indicative, imperative, subjunctive +1
    Indigenous to → Spain
    + 29 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: UMLS CUI: C0037750"
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