what languages helped make up spanish?

Answer 1

The Spanish language has a long history of borrowing words, expressions and subtler features of other languages it has come in contact with.

Spanish developed from Vulgar Latin, with influence from Celtiberian, Basque and Arabic, in the north of the Iberian Peninsula.

Spanish borrowed words from other European languages (its close neighbors such as Catalan, other Romance languages like French (this particularly during the Neoclassicist to Napoleonic periods, when French language and culture became the fashion at the royal court) and Italian, and Germanic languages like English).

In recent times, Spanish has borrowed many words and expressions from English, especially in the fields of computers and the Internet.

Answer 2

It is derived from Latin.

Spanish is a descendant of the Vulgar Latin brought to the Iberian peninsula by the soldiers and colonists of ancient Rome (see Latin language). Thus the Spanish vocabulary is basically of Latin origin, although it has been enriched by many loan words from other languages, especially Arabic, French, Italian, and various indigenous languages of North, Central, and South America. The oldest extant written records of Spanish date from the middle of the 10th cent.

The Spanish language employs the Roman alphabet, to which the symbols ch, ll, ñ, and rr have been added. The tilde (˜) placed over the n (ñ) indicates the pronunciation ni, as in English pinion. The acute accent (´) is used to make clear which syllable of a word is to be stressed when the regular rules of stress are not followed. The acute accent is also employed to distinguish between homonyms, as in sé ( "I know" ) and se ( "self" ).

There are a number of Spanish dialects; however, the Castilian dialect was already the accepted standard of the language by the middle of the 13th cent., largely owing to the political importance of Castile. There are several striking differences in pronunciation between Castilian and major dialects of Latin American Spanish. In the former, c before e and i, and z before a, o, and u, are pronounced th, as in English think; in the latter, they are sounded as s in English see. Moreover, the alphabetical symbol ll in Castilian is pronounced as lli in English billion; but in Latin American Spanish, as y in English you. On the whole, however, the differences between the Spanish dialects of Europe and of Latin America with reference to pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar are relatively minor.

One interesting feature of Spanish is that there are two forms of the verb "to be" : estar, which denotes a relatively temporary state, and ser, which denotes a relatively permanent condition and which is also used before a predicate noun. Reflexive verbs often perform the same function in Spanish that passive verbs do in English. Because the inflection of the Spanish verb indicates person very clearly, subject pronouns are not necessary. A another peculiarity of Spanish is the use of an inverted question mark (¿) at the beginning of a question and of an inverted exclamation point (¡) at the beginning of an exclamation.

Answer 3

Spanish is from Latin, and there are a few differences from country to country. There are a group af languages called the Romance languages, they are derived from Latin, which was spoken in ancient Rome. Some of them are Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and French.

Answer 4

i have no idea what language influences are native, perhaps some type of celtic tongue. the basques who live in the pyrenees mountains between spain and france speak their own tongue and are a celtic people. the largest influence after that would have to be latin. the iberian peninsula was part of the roman empire for many centuries. eventually, in order to reach a peace with the visigoths, the romans gave them the iberian peninsula so that they would refrain from invading the italian peninsula. so in addition to celtic and latin influence, you have the germanic influence of the goths. finally, the moors eventually made inroads into spain, until the christians there managed to organize under ferdinand and isabella and united the christian kingdoms into a single christian kingdom and drove the moors out during what became known as the reconquista. the moors spoke arabic. when i look at spanish words today, the two influences that seem to predominate to me are latin and arabic.

Answer 5

Latin.

Spanish is considered one of the Romance Languages (which includes Italian and French). All the Romance Languages stemmed from Latin.

There is a little Greek influence, also.

Answer 6

The only one I know is Latin.

Answer 7

latin with a lot of words borrowed from arabic.

Answer 8

Latin

Answer 9

mainly latin

Answer 10

mostly latin