The Spanish language is a language full of riches, but also of rarities, subtleties. That is why today we bring you some facts and curiosities of this beautiful Spanish language that you will not be able to believe.
Fun facts about Spanish
- Believe it or not, the Spanish language is the only official / coexisting language in the 6 continents . Spain in Europe. In all the countries of America, except for the northern region and Brazil in the south. In Africa, Spanish is spoken in Ceuta, Melilla, the Canary Islands, Equatorial Guinea and Western Sahara. Philippines in Asia. In Oceania on Easter Island and Polynesia. Finally, in Antarctica, the language is spoken in the Argentine and Chilean towns of Fortín Sargento Cabral and Villa La Estrella, respectively.
- Ferrocarrilero is the only word in the Spanish language that contains five R's.
- According to the latest edition of the Dictionary of the Spanish Language, Spanish contains around 93,111 words, including almost 19,000 Americanisms.
- The longest word in the Spanish language contains 23 letters and is an electroencephalographer . The second longest is sternocleidomastoid with 22 letters.
- There are words and phrases that read the same from left to right and vice versa . These are known as palindromes . An example is the word recognize and the phrase the abbot gave rice to the fox.
- One thousand is the only number that has neither O nor E.
- The Spanish language is the fastest to speak.
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra used around 8000 thousand different words in his work El Quijote.
- The letters "Ch" and "Ll" ceased to be part of the official alphabet of the Spanish language in 1994 when they were eliminated by the RAE.
- Pedigüeñería , has the four orthographic signs that a word can have: the virgulilla over the ñ, the umlaut over the ü, the accent mark and the period over the i.
