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This article contains tables of U.S. cities and metropolitan areas with information about the population aged 5 and over that speaks Spanish at home. The tables do not reflect the total number or percentage of people who know Spanish.
Venezuelan Spanish, like that of the rest of Spanish America and Castilian in general, has taken many words from indigenous languages. Some examples: Arepa (from Cariban). Auyama (from Arawakan). Budare (from Cariban). Casabe (from Cariban). Chinchorro (from Chaima). Conuco (from Taíno). Ocumo (from Arawakan). Onoto (from anoto, word from ...
Spanish Texas was one of the interior provinces of the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain from 1519 until 1821. Spain claimed ownership of the region in 1519. Slave raids by Spaniards into what became Texas began in the 16th century and created an atmosphere of antagonism with Native Americans (Indians) which would cause endless difficulties for the Spanish in the future.
Cubans (Spanish: Cubanos) are the citizens and nationals of Cuba.The Cuban people have varied origins with the most spoken language being Spanish.The larger Cuban diaspora includes individuals that trace ancestry to Cuba and self-identify as Cuban but are not necessarily Cuban by citizenship.
Ñ-shaped animation showing flags of some countries and territories where Spanish is spoken. Spanish is the official language (either by law or de facto) in 20 sovereign states (including Equatorial Guinea, where it is official but not a native language), one dependent territory, and one partially recognized state, totaling around 442 million people.
The foremost pioneer of the study of population genetics was Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza.Cavalli-Sforza used classical genetic markers to analyse DNA by proxy. This method studies differences in the frequencies of particular allelic traits, namely polymorphisms from proteins found within human blood (such as the ABO blood groups, Rhesus blood antigens, HLA loci, immunoglobulins, G-6-P-D ...
Monument to the Mestizaje in Mexico City, showing Hernan Cortes, La Malinche and their son, Martín Cortes, one of the first mestizos in Mexico.. When the term mestizo and the caste system were introduced to Mexico is unknown, but the earliest surviving records categorizing people by "qualities" (as castes were known in early colonial Mexico) are late-18th-century church birth and marriage ...
Between 1532 and 1560, 50 Italians established in Lima (Viceroyalty of Peru) and Callao, mostly from Liguria and Tuscany, such as Martin from Florence, Pietro Catagno, Pietro Martín from Sicily (all of them involved in Atahualpa's capture), Juan Bautista Pastene, born in Genoa in 1505 and also present since the beginning of the Spanish ...