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| name_native = Castellano, Español
| name_native = Castellano, Español
| number_of_speakers = ~ 420,000,000
| number_of_speakers = ~ 420,000,000
| countries = Andorra, '''[[OLPC Argentina|Argentina]]''', Belize, Bolivia, [[OLPC Chile|Chile]], [[OLPC Colombia|Colombia]], Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, [[OLPC Ecuador|Ecuador]], El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, [[OLPC Mexico|México]], Morocco, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, '''[[OLPC Peru|Perú]]''', Philippines, Puerto Rico, Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, '''[[OLPC Uruguay|Uruguay]]''', '''[[OLPC USA|USA]]''', Venezuela
| countries = Andorra, '''[[OLPC Argentina|Argentina]]''', Belize, Bolivia, [[OLPC Chile|Chile]], [[OLPC Colombia|Colombia]], Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, [[OLPC Ecuador|Ecuador]], El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, [[OLPC Mexico|México]], Morocco, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, '''[[OLPC Peru|Perú]]''', Philippines, Puerto Rico, Spain, Trinidad
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| official_status = official
| unicode_support = Latin-1 Block
| direction = lrtb
| alphabets = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_alphabet Latin] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_alphabet Spanish variant])<br>ABCDEFGHIJKLMNÑOPQRSTUVWXYZ<br>abcdefghijklmnñopqrstuvwxyz<br>ÁÉÍÓÚÜ áéíóúü ¿¡!?
| iso_639_1 = es
| iso_639_2 = spa
| iso_639_3 = [http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=spa spa]
| olpc_status_color = green
}}
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language Spanish], the language of [[Spain]] and most of Latin America, is written in the Latin alphabet with several accented letters, all of which are included in the Latin-1 block of Unicode.

Although the term ''spanish'' (''español'') is frequently used, a more 'correct' name of the language is ''Castilian'' (''castellano''). See "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_given_to_the_Spanish_language Names given to the Spanish language]".

== l10n ==

; Character sets : [[Unicode]] supported.

; Script layout : is left-to-right, top-to-bottom. Fully supported by [http://www.pango.org/ Pango] the [[Localization#Script layout|layout engine]] chosen.

; Fonts : Most (all?) Latin 1 fonts support [[Spanish]] as is. In particular the one chosen by [[OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/The Sugar Interface/Text and Fonts|HIG-Text and Fonts]] ([http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page DejaVu LGS Sans]).

[[Image:Argentina-B3.png|thumb|right|es-AR keyboard]]
; Keyboard : [[OLPC Argentina Keyboard]] fully supports the language, although considerations should be taken regarding countries where more than one language is used. Example:
:; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaran%C3%AD Guarani] : Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, & Paraguay
:; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapudungun Mapudungun] : Argentina & Chile
:; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quechua Quechua] : Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Perú.

; Input methods : except for 'standard' keyboard and touchpad would suffice for general use, although special considerations would be needed for physical dissabilities.

; Speech synthesis : is a very locally-sensitive issue, not only at national levels, but also regional (regardless of any political structure). Widespread existance of regional accents and intonations, together with the use of local terminology (be it from native or co-existing languages, and locally accepted barbarisms) may lead to a series of issues when deploying.
: Although there exists a 'neutral spoken spanish' (widely used for dubbing TV & movies), linguistic 'minefields' do exist between regions.

; Music and sound samples : is probably more appropriate at a country level, or better yet, provincial/state level in order to avoid predominance of the 'cultural' bias.

; Dictionaries, Spelling Checkers, Thesaurus : are very much developed in [[Spanish]], although not necessarily tuned for regional use. Of particular interest to [[Spanish]] is a working '''grammar checker''' given the level of words that differ only in an accented vowel, or differences in letters with little phonetical differentiation in everyday use: caso, casó, cazo, cazó (aprox: case/marry, married, hunt, hunted)
:; [http://aspell.net/man-html/Supported.html aspell] : [[Spanish]] is treated as a single language unit, without regional/national divisions. <tt>'''Code:'''es '''Name:''' Spanish '''Script:''' Latin '''Available:''' 0.50 '''Status:''' Incomplete</tt>
:; [http://dictionaries.mozdev.org/installation.html mozilla] : Makes / has the following subdivisions: [http://downloads.mozdev.org/dictionaries/spell-es-MX.xpi Mexico], and [http://downloads.mozdev.org/dictionaries/spell-es-ES.xpi Spain]
:; [http://www.abiword.org/languages.phtml abiword] : Divides [[Spanish]] into the following national dictionaries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
:; [http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries OpenOffice] : presents [[Spanish]] as the [http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/es_ES.zip Spain et al], or [http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/es_MX.zip Mexico]. It does offer hyphenation support.

; Character recognition : {{stub}}

== Alphabet ==

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNÑOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnñopqrstuvwxyz

Some years ago, the [http://www.rae.es Real Academia Española] determined that the special 'composed' characters such as ch, ll, rr (which except for the double r, were all considered characters&mdash;ie: a, b, c, ch, d...) were 'discarded' and standardized into just a simple sequenciation. For further information you can see the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_system_of_Spanish wikipedia's article].

=== Special characters ===

; Accented characters : <tt>ÁÉÍÓÚÜ<br>áéíóúü</tt>
; Punctuation : <tt>¿¡</tt>

== Formats ==

; Date : Traditionally, dates are in the <tt>DD/MM/YY</tt>
; Numbers : use the <tt>-9.999,99</tt> format (period for thousands and coma for decimal, prefix sign).


== Population ==
<font size="-1">
24,600 Andorra (1986)
33,000,000 Argentina official (1995)
80,477 Belize (1991 census)
3,483,700 Bolivia official + (1995)
13,800,000 Chile official (1995)
34,000,000 Colombia official (1995)
3,300,000 Costa Rica official (1995)
10,000,000 Cuba official (1995)
6,886,000 Dominican Republic official (1995)
9,500,000 Ecuador official (1995)
5,900,000 El Salvador official (1995)
11,500 Equatorial Guinea official (1993 Johnstone)
4,673,000 Guatemala official (1995)
5,600,000 Honduras official (1996)
86,211,000 Mexico official (1995)
20,000 Morocco (1993 Johnstone)
4,347,000 Nicaragua official (1995)
2,100,000 Panama official (1995)
186,880 Paraguay official (2000 WCD) 4,600,000 more likely
20,000,000 Peru official + (1995)
2,658 Philippines (1990 census)
3,437,120 Puerto Rico official (1996)
44,708,964 Spain official + (2006)
4,100 Trinidad and Tobago (2004)
3,000,000 Uruguay official (1995)
22,400,000 USA (1990 census)
21,480,000 Venezuela official (1995)
================================
343,970,119 TOTAL 348,570,119 TOTAL
Source: [http://www.ethnologue.org/show_language.asp?code=spa Ethnologue]
Note that population data is generally at least 10 years old.</font>


[[Category:Languages (international)]]

Revision as of 05:11, 10 July 2007

{{Infobox language 

  | name_english	= Spanish
  | name_native	= Castellano, Español
  | number_of_speakers	= ~ 420,000,000 
  | countries		= Andorra, Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Morocco, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Spain, Trinidad
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