The country has the largest Spanish-speaking population in the world, with almost a third of the global total of all Spanish native speakers. Almost all of the Mexican population speaks Spanish, 99.3% according to the latest census; nonetheless, around 5.4% still speak an indigenous language besides Spanish. The indigenous languages with the most speakers are\u00a0Nahuatl, spoken by approximately 1.37 million people,\u00a0Yukatek Maya\u00a0spoken by some 700,000 people and the\u00a0Mixtec\u00a0and\u00a0Zapotec languages,\u00a0each spoken by more than 400,000 people. The National Institute of Indigenous Languages\u00a0(INALI)\u00a0recognizes 68 linguistic groups and some 364 different specific varieties of indigenous languages. These languages have had status as national languages, with equal validity alongside Spanish in all the areas and contexts in which they are spoken.<\/p>\n More than 99.2% of Colombians speak\u00a0Latin American Spanish; known for its strong ‘r’ and strong pronunciation of every letter. \u00a065\u00a0Amerindian languages, two\u00a0Creole languages, the\u00a0Romani language, and\u00a0Colombian Sign Language\u00a0are also spoken in the country.\u00a0Hold on to your sombreros for the next fact; including Spanish, a total of 101 languages are present in Colombia. How cool is that? Best estimates recorded 71 languages that are spoken in the country today\u2014most of which belong to the\u00a0Chibchan,\u00a0Tucanoan,\u00a0Bora\u2013Witoto,\u00a0Guajiboan,\u00a0Arawakan,\u00a0Cariban,\u00a0Barbacoan, and\u00a0Saliban\u00a0language families. There are currently about 850,000 speakers of native languages.<\/p>\n Spain is openly multilingual and the constitution establishes that the nation will protect “all Spaniards and the peoples of Spain in the exercise of human rights, their cultures and traditions, languages, and institutions. Spanish\u00a0(espa\u00f1ol), officially recognized in the constitution as\u00a0Castilian\u00a0(Castellano), is the official language of the entire country. Very typical of espa\u00f1ol Castellano is the soft ‘c’ with ‘ci’ and ‘ce’, pronounced as ‘th’. For example, gracias becomes gratheas.<\/p>\n The\u00a0de facto\u00a0official language is\u00a0Spanish, spoken by almost all Argentines.\u00a0The country is the largest\u00a0Spanish-speaking society\u00a0that universally employs\u00a0voseo, the use of the\u00a0pronoun\u00a0vos\u00a0instead of\u00a0t\u00fa\u00a0(“you”), which imposes the use of alternate verb forms as well. Due to the extensive Argentine geography, Spanish has a strong variation among regions, although the prevalent dialect is\u00a0Rioplatense, primarily spoken in the La Plata Basin and accented similarly to the\u00a0Neapolitan language. Italian and other European immigrants influenced\u00a0Lunfardo\u2014the regional slang\u2014permeating the vernacular vocabulary of other Latin American countries as well.<\/p>\n According to the Peruvian Constitution of 1993, Peru’s official languages are\u00a0Spanish\u00a0and\u00a0Quechua,\u00a0Aymara\u00a0and other indigenous languages in areas where they predominate. Spanish is spoken by 85.9% of the population and Quechua by 13.2%, Aymara by 1.8% while other languages make up the remaining 0.9%. Spanish is used by the government and is the mainstream language of the country, which is used by the media and in educational systems and commerce.<\/p>\n In Venezuela, there are about 40 languages that are spoken, yet Spanish is the official language and the most widely spoken language in the country. Native Spanish speakers in Venezuela account for almost 98% of the population. Venezuelan Spanish is similar to Spanish spoken in Central America but with a Caribbean influence. There are also many indigenous languages spoken in Venezuela such as Wayuu, Warao, Piaroa, Kahlihna, and Manduhuaca.<\/p>\n Chile, officially known as the Republic of Chile, is mostly a Spanish speaking country, with a few exceptions of native and immigrant language communities. Chile today has 9 living languages and 7 that have become extinct. Around 17 million people speak Chilean Spanish as their first language out of a total population of 18 million people. Chilean Spanish is a Spanish dialect that is sometimes difficult for speakers of the Castilian variant of Spanish to understand. Some other native languages are Mapudungun (114,000 speakers), Quechua (8,200 speakers), and Rapa Nui (3,400 speakers).<\/p>\n Spanish is also the official language in Bolivia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, and Uruguay. Spanish is also widely spoken in the United States, Andorra, Belize, and Gibraltar.<\/p>\n![\"mexico.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/cudoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/mexico.jpg\")
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\n<\/strong><\/p>\nArgentina<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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<\/h2>\nChile<\/h2>\n
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