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  2. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    Oxford Dictionary has 273,000 headwords; 171,476 of them being in current use, 47,156 being obsolete words and around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. The dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives, and 169,000 phrases and combinations, making a total of over 600,000 word-forms. [ 37][ 38]

  3. Spanish language in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Over 42 million people aged five or older speak Spanish at home. [ 1 ] Spanish is also the most learned language other than English, [ 3 ] with about 8 million students. Estimates count up to 57 million native speakers, heritage language speakers, and second-language speakers. [ 4 ][ 5 ][ 6 ] There is an Academy of the Spanish Language located ...

  4. Spanish as a second or foreign language - Wikipedia

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    United States. Spanish is taught in schools all over the United States as a second or foreign language. The global number of Spanish-speakers consists of approximately 559 million persons. [1] Objectives for Spanish-language education include preparing students to use the language for speaking, listening, reading and writing and to learn about ...

  5. List of countries and territories where Spanish is an ...

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    Only in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado there have been Spanish-speaking communities uninterruptedly since colonial times. [35] Spanish is the most studied foreign language in United States schools and is spoken as a native tongue by 41 million people, plus an additional 11 million fluent second-language speakers. [36]

  6. Spanish dialects and varieties - Wikipedia

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    Although in most Spanish-speaking territories and regions, guttural or uvular realizations of /r/ are considered a speech defect, back variants for /r/ ([ʀ], [x] or [χ]) are widespread in rural Puerto Rican Spanish and in the dialect of Ponce, [29] whereas they are heavily stigmatized in the dialect of the capital San Juan. [30]

  7. Spanish language - Wikipedia

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    Spanish ( español) or Castilian ( castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 600 million when including second language ...

  8. History of the Jews in Turkey - Wikipedia

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    A key moment occurred in 1492, when more than 40,000 Spanish Jews fled the Spanish Inquisition. [37] At that point in time, Constantinople's population was a mere 70,000 due to the various sieges of the city during the Crusades and the Black Death, so this historical event was also significant for repopulation of the city.

  9. Spanish dollar - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish dollar, also known as the piece of eight ( Spanish: real de a ocho, dólar, peso duro, peso fuerte or peso ), is a silver coin of approximately 38 mm (1.5 in) diameter worth eight Spanish reales. It was minted in the Spanish Empire following a monetary reform in 1497 with content 25.563 g (0.8219 ozt) fine silver.