• dustyData@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      It blows some dumb people’s mind when I tell them we don’t even technically speak Spanish. It’s specifically Castilian. Spain has over a dozen different variations that might as well be different languages. And Latin American Spanish includes another half dozen.

      • Fushuan [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        12 days ago

        Castillian is still Spanish.

        adj. Perteneciente o relativo al español (‖ lengua). Léxico español. Sin.: castellano.

        https://dle.rae.es/español?m=form

        What you said is equivalent to saying that madrileño ir sevillano isn’t castellano. Yeah no, dialects are still part of the language and Castellano is a dialect of Español.

        might as well be different languages.

        No. Dialects are not different languages. We technically do speak Spanish, you are technically using the word technically wrong. Sorry to be a pedantic asshole but words have meanings.