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Spanish language in the Americas

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The Sound of the Standard Latin American Spanish language (UDHR, Numbers, Greetings, & Sample Text)

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Spanish language in the Americas Top #9 Facts

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The History of the Spanish Language

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American vs Spanish Sign Language: Beginners Vocab

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Spanish Language and Latin American Culture Program

The different varieties of the Spanish language spoken in the Americas are distinct from Peninsular Spanish and Spanish spoken elsewhere, such as in Africa and Asia. Linguistically, this grouping is somewhat arbitrary, akin to having a term for "overseas English" encompassing variants spoken in the United States, Canada, Australia, India, New Zealand and Ireland, but not the Island of Britain. There is great diversity among the various Latin American vernaculars, and there are no traits shared by all of them which is not also in existence in one or more of the variants of Spanish used in Spain. A Latin American "standard" does however vary from the Castilian "standard" register used in television and notably the dubbing industry. Of the more than 469 million people who speak Spanish as their native language, more than 418 million are in Latin America and the United States.