What is Castilian languages?
{{Infobox language family | name = Castilian languages | altname = Castilic | region = [[Spain]], Spanish-speaking Americas, [[Equatorial Guinea]] | familycolor = Indo-European | fam2 = [[Italic languages|Italic]] | fam3 = [[Latino-Faliscan languages|Latino-Faliscan]] | fam4 = [[Latin]] | fam5 = [[Romance languages|Romance]] | fam6 = [[Italo-Western languages|Italo-Western]] | glotto = cast1243 | glottorefname = Castilic | child1 = ''[[Spanish language|Spanish]]'' | child2 = ''[[Judaeo-Spanish]]'' | child3 = ''[[Extremaduran language|Extremaduran]]''{{efn|[[Extremaduran language|Extremaduran]] is sometimes called an [[Astur-Leonese]] dialect.}} | ancestor = | glottoname = | notes = | fam7 = {{Nowrap|[[Western Romance languages|Western Romance]]}} | fam8 = [[Iberian Romance languages|Iberian Romance]] | fam9 = [[West Iberian languages|West Iberian]] | child4 = ''[[Amazonic Spanish]]'' }} The '''Castillian''' languages are a branch of [[Romance languages]]. They were first spoken in central [[Spain]], and then spread to nearly all of Spain. The main language in the branch is [[Spanish language|Spanish]], which has around 480 million speakers around the world. Since the [[early modern period|colonial era]], Spanish has been spoken in [[Latin America]].<ref>Eberhard, David M., Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2020. ''Ethnologue: Languages of the World''. Twenty-third edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com.</ref> ==Notes== {{notelist}} ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Romance languages]] {{stub}}