A regional variety of Spanish carrying its own phonology, vocabulary and, in Rioplatense Spanish's voseo, distinct verb morphology, while remaining mutually intelligible with standard Spanish. Belongs here: Andalusian Spanish, Mexican Spanish and Rioplatense Spanish, each recorded in this atlas's own graph as Descends From Spanish. Does not belong here: a variety descending from any language other than Spanish.
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1. Wikipedia: Spanish Language
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Today, it is a global language with 519 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 636 million speakers total, including second-language speakers.
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