🇪🇸 What Language Do They Speak in Spain?
The short answer
Spain's official language is Spanish (called castellano — Castilian — by many Spaniards). Three regional languages are co-official in their territories: Catalan, Galician and Basque, and you'll see them on signs, in schools and on local TV.
Worth knowing
- ●Catalan is spoken by millions in Catalonia, Valencia (as Valencian) and the Balearics
- ●Basque (Euskara) is a language isolate — related to no other living language on Earth
- ●The 'th' sound in words like gracias is a Spain thing; Latin America says an 's' — both are correct
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