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Tina Arena. Filippina Lydia " Tina " Arena AM (born 1 November 1967) is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, musical theatre actress and record producer. She is one of Australia's highest-selling artists and has sold over 10 million records worldwide. [1] [2] [3] Arena is multilingual, singing and recording in English, Italian, French and ...
Haiti, [b] officially the Republic of Haiti, [c] [d] is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. [18] [19] Haiti is the third largest country in the Caribbean, and with an ...
The tables do not reflect the total number or percentage of people who know Spanish. Metropolitan areas [ edit ] Number of people aged five or older who speak Spanish at home and proportion of population for metropolitan areas with a total population 500,000 or more.
Possibly "the worst epidemic of the Spanish Era in California" occurred between March and May of 1806 when a measles epidemic and related complications killed one-quarter of the mission native population in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1811, the Spanish Viceroy in Mexico sent an interrogatorio (questionnaire) to all of the missions in Alta ...
The Spanish language, also called Castilian, is a Romance language that evolved from the dialects of Roman Vulgar Latin spoken in the Iberian peninsula. The first examples of language with some features specific of modern Spanish are ascribed to documents from various monasteries in the area of Burgos and La Rioja [1] in what is now northern Spain.
It is the largest Spanish-language newspaper in the United States; El Nuevo Herald and Diario Las Américas, Spanish-language daily newspapers serving the greater Miami, Florida, market; El Tiempo Latino a Spanish-language free-circulation weekly newspaper published in Washington, D.C. Latina, a magazine for bilingual, bicultural Hispanic women
A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varieties may not be. [1] This is a typical occurrence with widely spread languages and language families ...
Spanish ( español) or Castilian ( castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 600 million when including second language ...