Spanish Speaking Countries Trivia
• The United States has almost 40 million native Spanish speakers. By 2050 it will become the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world. There are more Spanish speakers in the United States than there are speakers of Chinese, French, Italian, Hawaiian, and the Native American languages combined. (Source: Instituto Cervantes)
• Las Glosas Emilianenses (Glosses of Saint Emilianus) was the first written Spanish record dating back to 964. It is the first known document, consisting of notes in both Spanish and Basque in the margins of a religious manuscript in Latin. The first literary work fully written in Spanish was El Cantar del Mio Cid, an anonymous poem from the 12th century. (Source: BBC)
• Spanish is the official language of 22 countries and the second largest native language in the world, the second language used for international communication and the third most used language on the Internet. (Source: Instituto Cervantes)
• In 2005, the National Congress of Brazil approved a bill, signed into law by the President, making Spanish language teaching mandatory in both public and private secondary schools in Brazil. (Source: Wikipedia)
• The first Spanish grammar was created by Elio Antonio de Nebrija and published in 1492, the same year Columbus discovered America. (Source: BBC)
• Mexico contains the largest population of Spanish speakers with 114 million followed by the United States with 50 million. (Source: Wikipedia)
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