Spanish
Let an agent handle Spanish by varieties, standards, identifiers, learning and translation, respecting regional usage and self-designations.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent handle Spanish by varieties, standards, identifiers, learning and translation, respecting regional usage and self-designations.
A Romance language that originated in the Iberian Peninsula, also called Castilian (castellano), spoken natively by roughly 500 million people and official in about 20 countries, with Standard varieties coordinated by the Real Academia Espanola and the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language.
What it is for: Communication, culture, education and international relations.
It can be identify regional varieties; check norms with RAE and ASALE resources; find learning resources and exams; translate with regional sensitivity.
Distinguishing features
Romance language
Pluricentric with many national norms
Called espanol or castellano by speakers
Coordinated academies
What it looks like
Latin script with letters such as n with tilde, accents and inverted question and exclamation marks.
How it is recognised
Inverted marks at the start of questions
Letter n with tilde
Portuguese is a separate language
Related models
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In practice
Families and kinds
Peninsular Spanish
Mexican and Central American Spanish
Caribbean Spanish
Andean and Rioplatense Spanish
Judaeo-Spanish (related)
Identifiers
ISO 639-1 es language code
ISO 639-3 spa language code
Standards and regulation
RAE and ASALE norms
DELE and SIELE exams
National language laws
Failure modes and hazards
Treating one variety as the only correct one
Mixing regional vocabulary unintentionally
Outdated speaker figures
Also called
+17
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Varieties Regional forms.
Spanish is pluricentric.
Variety
Which variety.
Variety
Regional variety.
- Which regional variety is meant or appropriate? boundary
- How do vocabulary and pronunciation differ? definition
Name
Espanol or castellano.
Name
Language name.
- Do speakers here call the language espanol or castellano? provenance
- Which name do official texts use? provenance
Norms Standards.
Academies coordinate norms.
RAE
Academies.
RAE
Academy norms.
- What do RAE and ASALE resources say about this usage? provenance
- Is it accepted regionally? provenance
Spelling
Accents.
Spelling
Spelling.
- Where do accents go in this word? definition
- Which rule applies? provenance
Learning Studying Spanish.
Learners need resources.
Resources
Courses.
Resources
Learning resources.
- Which resources suit this learner level? action
- Which variety do they teach? provenance
Exams
Certificates.
Exams
Exams.
- Which certificates, such as DELE or SIELE, fit this goal? provenance
- Where can they be taken? provenance
Use Translation and data.
Use needs care.
Translation
Localisation.
Translation
Translation.
- Should the translation target a specific country? boundary
- Which terms differ? definition
Speakers
Statistics.
Speakers
Speaker numbers.
- How many speakers are there, according to recent sources such as Instituto Cervantes? provenance
- Native or total? boundary
What the second pass must settle
- Should varieties be separate entries?
- How should speaker statistics be sourced?
- How should Spanish in specific countries be linked?