What is Castilian Spanish?

Question

I am doing a research paper on Spain and I was wondering what the difference is between this and just espanol? :)

Answer 1

The standard literary and official form of Spanish, which is based on this dialect.
It is the mother tongue of about 40 million people in Spain, where the language originated and whence it was later brought by Spanish explorers, colonists, and empire-builders to the Western Hemisphere and other parts of the world during the last five centuries. It is the native language of over 17 million people in the United States, and is one of the official languages of the United Nations.

Is like saying the english from England and the english you speak in America. Well spanish from spain is the proper spanish, the other hispanic countries are just a mix of everything.
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Answer 2

Spanish is the generic name for all the varieties of Spanish, wherever it's spoken. However, each of the varieties has a different personality, and sometimes their own name, like Castilian Spanish. Castilla is a region in the center of Spain, and Castilian Spanish is the variety of Spanish that is spoken in Spain in general. Thus, in Latin America, you have other varieties of Spanish, like Mexican Spanish, Portorican Spanish, Cuban Spanish, Dominican Spanish, Argentinian Spanish, etc. and even many more varieties inside these ones too.

Some people say Castilian Spanish is the proper Spanish. Well, from a sociolinguist's perspective, there's no such a thing as proper Spanish, or proper english, etc. All varieties of a language are equally valuable. The difference comes from the political, economic and power issues that are adscribed to a particular language. But all of those issues are actually outside the language variety itself.

Oh! And some people in Latin America call their variety Castillian Spanish. Well, this is just a bad use of the term. Castillian Spanish is the Spanish that is spoken in Spain and by the Spaniards that grew up with it and then migrated.

I hope I helped!

Answer 3

I live in Argentina and they speak Castilian Spanish (or Castellano) here. It is definitely harder to understand, but it has about the same grammar as Latin American Spanish. One of the biggest differences is that in Castilian Spanish instead of using the "tu" form for "you" they use the "vos" form. It changes the conjugations for the verbs. (Ex: the verb tener(to have) would be tenes(you have) instead of tienes.) Latin American Spanish is easier to learn, because I think all of the other countries use it except for Argentina. If you were to learn Spanish using books, if would teach you the Latin American Spanish. I hope this helped a little!

Answer 4

Proper Spanish, or just Spanish if you are from Spain.
It is the dielect from the center of the country (Castille) and the capital Madrid. Because it is the language of the area where the Spanish rulers came from (think Ferdinan and Isabella sending Columbus on his way) That marraige united most of what is now Spain. Isabella was the more powerful of the two and she was from the kingdom of Castile.
It is differnet from Catalain which is from around Bacilona.

They tend to use a lisp that sounds funny to us in the US who are used to hearing Mexican Spanish, and they use the vosotros form of verbs, which central and south america does not.
Once you get over the snickering at the lisp, which sounds like they are TRYING to sound very gay. It is a MUCH prettier sounding spanish than what you are used too.

Answer 5

In many regions of Spain it's spoken an idiom that's widely diverging from the conventional Spanish.That's why when somebody wants people knows he's speaking the official Spanish language he says "yo hablo espanol, castellano castizo" that means "I speak Spanish, genuine Castilian".

Answer 6

Castillian Spanish is the standard form of Spanish in Spain, which originally came from the Castille region. There are some key differences between «castellano» and the Spanish of Latin America. Castillian Spanish is caracterized for its lisping sounds: c and z are pronounced like [θ], the sound in ma/th/, unlike most Latin American variants, where c and z are pronounced as [s]. Another unusual aspect of this form of Spanish is the pronounciation of [d] as [θ] - la ciudad, in Castillian Spanish, is pronounced la thyudath. In Castillian Spanish, [ll] is usually pronounced like a y, unlike in, for instance, Argentina, where [ll] is pronounced as [ʒ], the sound in the word plea/s/ure. Castillian Spanish is observed to be rather faster, on average, than other dialects in the hispanohablante world.

I hope that that was of some assistance! Best wishes,

Andrea.

Answer 7

Castillian comes from the region of Castilla in Spain and that is where the kings who united Spain and kicked out the moores ( Arabs ) came from, they made it the official language of Spain, as you you know there are several regions in Spain and each one has its own language like Catalunya ( where Barcelona is ) they speak Catalan and in the north where Pamplona is ( running with the bulls ) they speak Basque, and the Kings sponsored Columbus and that is how Castillian came to America, since the Castillian language came from Spain it is refered to as The Spanish Language which even in Spain has changed since nowadays they have a lot of mixed words from other languages.

Answer 8

Castilian is Spanish, plain and simple. It isn't some dialect or local version of the language; it is the language itself. Anyone who claims Castilian is Spanish as spoken by Spaniards is misinformed. Latin American Spanish is just as Castilian as that spoken in Spain.

Answer 9

Oh my God...I cant believe all the things i have read in the answers..I'm from a country where the lang is CASTELLANO..
I'll tell you something.
The correct name of the lang that everyone calls Spanish...or ESPAÑOL is Castellano, and i'll explain u why.
Our lang comes from Castilla a "province" (state) from Spain.....that is the exact place where it comes from.
The thing is that as Castilla is in Spain, almost all the pple got confused and called our lang Spanish or Español.
It cant be Español or Spanish, bcoz in Spain exist more than 15 different langs, and all are spanish langs....as...Catalán from Catalunya.........Euskaro from Provincias Vascongadas...Gallego from Galicia..etc.. all that langs are Spanish, not only one...so....if you want to talk correctly from now on, you have to say CASTELLANO instead of SPANISH or ESPAÑOL

Hope it helps you

Answer 10

I think that Castilian Spanish is only used in Spain, but I could be wrong.