Tuesday, September 13, 2016

2. Spanish

Out of the 399 million Spanish speakers, 1/4 live in Mexico, while 41 million live in Colombia, 38.8 million in Argentina, 26.3 million in Venezuela, with 34.2 million in the United States, as in Spain ( 38. 4 million ).

Spanish "loanwords" in English are characterized by term from military and weaponry ( guerrilla, flotilla, armada, and machete ), animal names ( chinchilla, alligator, cockroach, iguana), and lastly, the terms from food and drink ( potato, banana, anchovy, vanilla).

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