History of Spanish language Shows Many Foreign Influences
The history of Spanish language may well have begun with the first settlers in Southwestern Europe when the Iberians as well as Celts and some nomadic Aryan tribes got together to form the Celtiberian race that were given to speaking Celtic in a variation of the original Celtic language. This was the time when Spain was referred to as the Iberian Peninsula and here arrived some Phoenicians from Lebanon and a great pioneering as well as peaceful civilization was born in Cadiz and some other trading posts that dotted the Mediterranean coast.
Vulgar Latin
It was during these times that the alphabet was invented and soon the Greeks too followed in founding towns at the time of the Second Punic War. When Rome conquered the entire Iberian Peninsula, they, according to the history of Spanish language, named a region as Hispania and when later Latin was assimilated with Celtic and the languages of the Iberians, Celts as well as Carthaginians, a language known as Vulgar Latin came into existence.
The history of Spanish language shows the emergence of standardized Spanish around the thirteenth century and it also was comprised of many Arabic words that in fact run in their thousands though when the Christian kingdoms regained possession of their lost lands, Vulgar Latin dialects again sprung up including Castilian.
It was then left to the Catholic monarchs in the person of Isabella of Castile and her husband Ferdinand of Aragon to make Castilian the official Spanish language dialect. And, according to the history of Spanish language, many scholars at this time began working on the language and during the time of King Alfonso X made Spanish a standardized language that owed its origins to the Castilian dialect.
So, the history of Spanish language reveals that the main contributors were Latin, English as well as Arabic in the development of the language and even today, modern Spanish contains approximately four thousand words that have their roots in Arabic. As the history of Spanish language has progressed up to the present time, it has now become the official language of many countries including Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and many other Latin American countries.
Now, Spanish is also spoken widely in the United States, Canada, and Morocco as well as in the Philippines, and is the language of more than three hundred thirty two million people worldwide. There is non-Latin words contained in the Spanish as well as English languages that owe their origins to Arabic and thus the Castilian dialect that is considered to be the standard for Spanish in education as well as for writing contains many Arabic words.
