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How many spaniards speak castilian spanish

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It is near impossible to tell. First of, some corrections: Castilian is Spanish. Castilian is the original name of the language, the only name it had before Spain was created at the end of the Spanish succession war. It was renamed afterwards in order to push it as the only “national” language of the whole empire. But 46.5 million speak Castilian Spanish.

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