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Marius Sala
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Director, Institute of Linguistics, Bucharest, Romania. Coeditor of Enciclopedia limbilor romanice.
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Spanish language, Romance language (Indo-European family) spoken as a first language by some 360 million people worldwide. In the early 21st century, Mexico had the greatest number of speakers (more than 85 million), followed by Colombia (more than 40 million), Argentina (more than 35 million), theā¦
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