Equatoguinean Spanish

Equatoguinean Spanish
Equatoguinean Spanish
Español ecuatoguineano
Pronunciation	[espaˈɲol ekwatoɣineˈano]
Native speakers	Unknown. ; 1.1 million total speakers. (2010)
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Romance Western Ibero-Romance West Iberian Castilian Spanish Equatoguinean Spanish; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Old Latin Vulgar Latin Proto-Romance Old Spanish Early Modern Spanish ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin (Spanish alphabet)
Official status
Official language in	Equatorial Guinea
Regulated by	Academia Ecuatoguineana de la Lengua Española
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	span1270
IETF	es-GQ
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Equatoguinean Spanish (Spanish: Español ecuatoguineano) is the variety of Spanish spoken in Equatorial Guinea. This is the only Spanish variety that holds national official status in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is regulated by the Equatoguinean Academy of the Spanish Language and is spoken by about 90% of the population, estimated at 1,170,308 for the year 2010^[1] (though population figures for this country are highly dubious), all of them second-language speakers.^[2]

^ ^a ^b "World Gazetteer". Archived from the original on 9 February 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2011.
^ Penny, Ralph (2002) [1991]. A History Of The Spanish Language (2 ed.). p. 33. Spanish is spoken by part of the population of Equatorial Guinea. Spanish is the language of education and the press and is the only common language in an otherwise linguistically diverse country. However, those who speak Spanish use it as a second language, often acquired in adulthood and therefore not always in a fully native manner.

[auto-1] "World Gazetteer". Archived from the original on 9 February 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2011.

[2] Penny, Ralph (2002) [1991]. A History Of The Spanish Language (2 ed.). p. 33. Spanish is spoken by part of the population of Equatorial Guinea. Spanish is the language of education and the press and is the only common language in an otherwise linguistically diverse country. However, those who speak Spanish use it as a second language, often acquired in adulthood and therefore not always in a fully native manner.

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