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espaneo 3rd December 2004	spanish is a wonderful language.
Edria Murray Staff Editor 31st March 2005	Spanish is the third most widely spoken language in the world after Mandarin Chinese and English. Globally there are with between 322,200,000 to 358,000,000 speakers of Spanish as their first language and 417,000,000 speakers including second and subsequent language users. Originally the language of Spain, after the arrival in the Americas of Christopher Columbus in 1492, the Spanish Colonial empire spread bringing the Spanish language with it. Areas in the Americas under Spanish control included most of South and Central America, Mexico, parts of the Caribbean and much of the United States. Most of the spanish speakers in the world today live in these formerly colonised regions.
Daniel Yepez 2nd February 2006	You're wrong with the Spanish speakers in Spain. In my country everybody speak this language. It's official all overe the country. But in some parts like Catalonia another language has official status. In this case, the catalan. Please change this! Thanks!
Greg (USA) 21st November 2007	I don't think Philippines is 3rd largest in English... US, China, India are all higher. Is this native speakers or all?
Shayne (USA) 29th September 2008	Most, if not all of these populations of spanish speakers are from 1986. Theses statistics are to old to be credible.

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