How did it get there and from where does it come?
The Spanish language, also called Castilian, is the second language in the world by the number of people who speak it as their mother tongue, only behind Mandarin Chinese and its expansion and globalization are growing rapidly. But what is the origin of Spanish? Get ready to travel back in time and discover how this language was forged by learning the Origin and Evolution of Spanish or Castilian. According to the Royal Spanish Academy, the word "Spanish" comes from the Provençal "Espagnol" and this from the medieval Latin "Hispaniola" which means "From Hispania" which was the name by which the territories of present-day Spain and Portugal were known in the Roman Empire Like other Romance languages ​​such as Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, French, Italian and Romanian, Spanish or Castilian comes from Latin since much of the territory of the Iberian Peninsula was conquered by the Roman Empire, however, let's see who were in these lands before the Romans! Around the 6th century BC, the Iberians began to mix with the Celts who were dispersed populations in the Iberian Peninsula, like other peoples such as the Tartesians, the Celtiberians, etc. and whose languages ​​called pre-Romanesque would leave their mark on the Latin that would come later. However, all these people lacked a linguistic unit. Later, in the 3rd century BC, began the process of romanization started the glorious era of the Roman Empire which designated the name of Hispania to these territories. Like all great empires in history, the Western Roman Empire would not be eternal and saw its fall towards the year 467 of our era by that time the cultured Latin had already lost its importance so it was quickly replaced by vulgar Latin which had been influenced by Greek, Celtic, and other Germanic languages. Immediately after the demise of the Roman Empire, People of Germanic origin called Visigoths occupied Spain and dominated the peninsula until the year 711 which is when the Muslim army crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and defeated them. Part of the linguistic legacy of the Visigoth people is comprised of words such as shelter, truce, and guardian. The Muslims occupied almost the entire peninsula (except the northern lands) and they formed the province called "Al-Andalus" consolidating later in the Caliphate of Granada. In the meantime, in the north, the Christian kingdoms would prevail and they would give rise to the Romance modalities like Catalan, Asturian, Aragonese, Galician, and of course, Castilian. The latter consisted of a primitive dialect in the medieval county of Castile which would later become the Kingdom of Castile, in the central region north of present-day Spain. Shortly after the Arab occupation, a process called the Spanish reconquest began.