1 / 19

THE LANGUAGES OF SPAIN

THE LANGUAGES OF SPAIN. In Spain there are four different languages, which are: Castilian Galican Catalan Basque Valencian. WHAT IS AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE?. An official language is used in governmental events and administrative issues.

weldon
Download Presentation

THE LANGUAGES OF SPAIN

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. THE LANGUAGES OF SPAIN

  2. In Spain there are four different languages, which are: • Castilian • Galican • Catalan • Basque • Valencian

  3. WHAT IS AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE? An official language is used in governmental events and administrative issues. In Spain there are four official languages: Spanish, Catalonian, Galician and Basque.

  4. SPANISH The origin of the Spanish language is to be found in the Latin language spoken in the Northern part of the country during the Roman invasion in the 1st century B.C. After the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century, the Hispanic languages developed under the influence of Latin. .

  5. CASTILIAN Castilian was the name of the Spanish language. It was called after Castilla, the main region in the centre of Spain, where many castles -“ castillos” in Spanish – stood. The first grammar of the Spanish language was published by Elio Antonio de Nebrija es de 1492. A t that time, after the Conquest, Spanish starts to spread across America.

  6. Hola,¿como estas? Hola Carmen Yo bien. Hola Marta

  7. EL CATALONIAN

  8. CATALONIAN LANGUAGE It is spoken by 3 million people in the North- eastern region of Catalonia. I t is spoken in Cataluña, Valencia, Islas Baleares, the eastern part of Aragón, Rosellón (France) y Cerdaña (Italia).

  9. Hola, com aquestes? Hola Carmen Jo bé. Hola Marta

  10. VALENCIAN AND BALEARIC The Valencian language is similar to Catalonian. The two regions are very close. In the Balearic Isles - a touristic place - 600,000 people speak Catalonian, with some differences in the dialect.

  11. Hola, Carmen Hola, com estes? Jo bé. Hola Marta.

  12. It is spoken in the North-Western part of Spain. It shares some features with Portuguese because this region in next to Portugal. GALICIAN

  13. Ola, como vai vostede? Ola Carmen Eu tamén. Ola Marta

  14. BASQUE

  15. BASQUE It is the only language in Western Europe that does not have an Indoeuropean origin. They say it traces back to the Bronze Era. It was about to dissapear in the 50s and 60s, but its usage was recovered on political grounds. Today it is used by 60% of overall population.

  16. Hi, zer moduz? Hi Carmen I ondo. Hi Marta

  17. WHERE IS SPANISH SPOKEN?

  18. OTHER LANGUAGES IN SPAIN. In Asturias there is a dialect called Bable. It is not considered a language because there are not sufficient written records of it. There are fragmented social varieties of Aragonian and Aranian( Arán Valley), which is a variety of Gasconian.

  19. OTHER LANGUAGES AND DIALECTS IN SPAIN

More Related