Thought it was English !

More than 1,000 years ago, the Suso monks translated Latin text into the local Ibero-Romance language, or what we now call Spanish (mauritius images GmbH/Alamy)


The official language in 20 countries and the mother tongue of 480 million people around the world, Spanish is the second most widely spoken native language on the planet after Mandarin Chinese, according to the Spanish language institute, the Instituto Cervantes.

Professor Jairo Javier García Sánchez, of the department of philology, communication and documentation at the University of Alcalá on the north-eastern outskirts of Madrid, traces the origins of Spanish back to vulgar Latin – ‘vulgar’ referring to the common, colloquial language rather than the “written, literary, classical Latin,” he explained.

Latin came to the Iberian Peninsula with the Romans during the Second Punic War in the 3rd Century BC, when the formation of Ibero-Romance, a sub-group of the Romance languages that developed on the Iberian Peninsula, began.
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