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  2. History of the Spanish language - Wikipedia

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    The language known today as Spanish is derived from spoken Latin, which was brought to the Iberian Peninsula by the Romans after their occupation of the peninsula that started in the late 3rd century BC. Today it is the world's 4th most widely spoken language, after English, Mandarin Chinese and Hindi. [1]

  3. List of languages by first written account - Wikipedia

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    Guugu Yimidhirr. notes by Johann Flierl, Wilhelm Poland and Georg Schwarz, culminating in Walter Roth 's The Structure of the Koko Yimidir Language in 1901. [200] [201] A list of 61 words recorded in 1770 by James Cook and Joseph Banks was the first written record of an Australian language. [202] c. 1891. Galela.

  4. List of oldest continuously inhabited cities - Wikipedia

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    Mexico. c. 400 – c. 200 BC [35] [36] Toluca, in the State of Mexico, has been continuously inhabited at least since the 8th century BC. [37] [dubious – discuss] The oldest sedentary remains ( Calixtlahuaca) date from around the 600 BC to 400 BC. [citation needed] Papantla / El Tajín. Totonac people.

  5. List of Spanish words of various origins - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Spanish words of various origins. It includes words from Australian Aboriginal languages, Balti, Berber, Caló, Czech, Dravidian languages, Egyptian, Greek, Hungarian, Ligurian, Mongolian, Persian, Slavic (such as Old Church Slavonic, Polish, Russian, and Croatian ). Some of these words existed in Latin as loanwords from other ...

  6. Spanish language - Wikipedia

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    Spanish ( español) or Castilian ( castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 600 million when including second language ...

  7. List of the verified oldest people - Wikipedia

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    The oldest person ever whose age has been independently verified is Jeanne Calment (1875–1997) of France, who lived to the age of 122 years and 164 days. [ b] The oldest verified man ever is Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013) of Japan, who lived to the age of 116 years and 54 days. The oldest known living person is Maria Branyas of Spain (born in ...

  8. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Michael Everson 's Alphabets of Europe. The World’s Writing Systems, catalogue of 294 writing systems, each with a typographic reference glyph and Unicode status. Deseret Alphabet. ScriptSource – a dynamic, collaborative reference to the writing systems of the world.

  9. Old Spanish - Wikipedia

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    For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. Old Spanish, also known as Old Castilian ( Spanish: castellano antiguo; Old Spanish: roman [3] [roˈman], romançe, [3] romaz [3] ), or Medieval Spanish ( Spanish: español medieval ), was originally a dialect of Vulgar Latin spoken in the former provinces of the Roman Empire.