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Saturday 23 February 2013

Spanish People







Spain. A country full of wonderful culture, of mystifying tradition, of beautiful faces. The home country for the world's famous football or soccer team, FC Barcelona. The country that holds the small yet exuberant Ibiza. In short, there is nothing not to love about Spain.
Spaniards, or españoles [espa'ɲoles] as the people in Spain prefer to be called, are just a general name for  a heavy mixture of Regionals, Castilians, Balaerics, Valencians and many more.

But their language differentiates them from each other. Castilians, Balaerics and Valencians, speak the language of Catalan, a distinct Roman language in Eastern Spain. Basque, speaks, well Basque. Then the Galician, having their tounges familiar to Portugese, being descendants of the Galician-Portugese.

 But the interesting of all, is the Romani people. When we were children, if we behaved badly our parents wold scare us that gypsies would come to take us, if some remembers. Romani people, or as often being called gypsies, are part of a subgroup of the Iberian Kale. Spanish Roma, for many reasons, are considered "foreign" by the government. They, the Romas, are more connected to the Andalusians.

The peninsular Spain are generally  divided to two main dialects; Castillian Spanish, being up on the north, and Andalusian Spanish, down south. Although so, many large parts of Spain speaks "transitional dialects", a mix of Andalusian and Castilian Spanish.

Linguistically, Spanish is a Romance language, and is one of the aspects that causes Spaniards being labelled as Latin people. Shockingly, Spanish language were influenced strongly by Arabic language. At almost 4000 words being from Arabic origin.

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