¡Hola!
say it: “OH-lah”
Spanish
in its own words: español
- Speakers
- 560 million (estimate)
- Family
- Indo-European – Romance
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- Andorra, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Belize, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Spain and 18 more
- Script
- Latin
- Official language
- Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras and 10 more
Fun fact
Spanish spelling opens questions with an inverted question mark ¿ and exclamations with an inverted ¡.