Don't forget to visit my webpage for more info and quotes: www.spanishizer.com / info@spanishizer.com Spanish ( / ˈ s p æ n ɪ ʃ / ( listen ) ; español ( help · info ) ) or Castilian [3] ( / k æ ˈ s t ɪ l i ə n / ( listen ) , castellano ( help · info ) ), is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in the Americas and Spain. It is a global language and the world's second-most spoken native language , after Mandarin Chinese . [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] Spanish is a part of the Ibero-Romance group of languages , which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in Iberia after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. The oldest Latin texts with traces of Spanish come from mid-...