the different varieties of the spanish language spoken in the americas are distinct from peninsular spanish and spanish spoken elsewhere, such as in africa and asia. linguistically, this grouping is somewhat arbitrary, akin to having a term for "overseas english" encompassing variants spoken in the united states, canada, australia, india, new zealand and ireland, but not the island of britain. there is great diversity among the various latin american vernaculars, and there are no traits shared by all of them which are not also in existence in one or more of the variants of spanish used in spain. a latin american "standard" does, however, vary from the castilian "standard" register used in television and notably the dubbing industry.