The history of the Castilian language

It is clear that Spanish was not born yesterday! Do you want to know the origins and evolution of Spanish ?

In Prehistory, Indo-European was spoken , a language based on oral communication and pronunciation that evolved with the development of civilizations. The cultural diversity of Prehistory allowed each people to develop some variations, to finally obtain so many different languages .

As of the Romanization of the Peninsula, the pre-Roman languages ​​are replaced by Latin. Thus, the base of Spanish is vulgar Latin , that is, the Latin spoken in the streets and squares.

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century, Vulgar Latin progressively evolved throughout Latin Europe, diversifying and the different Romance languages ​​appeared .

In the 8th century, the Muslim expansion in the Iberian Peninsula puts the peninsular Romance languages ​​under a strong lexical influence from Arabic (more than 4000 words in Spanish).

Later, Alfonso X el Sabio (1252-1284) institutionalized the Toledo School of Translators, from which a standardized form of medieval Spanish emerged and carried out its orthographic standardization .

In 1713 the Royal Spanish Academy was founded. His first task was to fix the language and sanction the changes that speakers had made to their language over the centuries.

Today, Spanish is the most widely used Romance language in the world today. This vast geographic spread results in an important range of dialect variants , which leads us to suppose that over the centuries, Castilian inevitably should follow the fate of Latin: split into different national languages. However, we must also believe in the need to maintain a linguistic unit that allows effective and fluid communication among the majority of Spanish speakers. The history of the Castilian language