Spanish

This article deals with Spanish as it relates to NationStates. For more general information, see the Wikipedia article on this subject.

Spanish is an Iberian Romance language. In the real world, Spanish is widely considered to be the third most spoken language, and a language in permanent expansion. In the NationStates world, the language also plays an important role, as many players claim their countries to be spanish-speaking to some degree. In some cases, the players behind these nations do so because they are Spanish speakers themselves in RL, though in other cases they just do it because they have sympathy towards the language or because it fits their roleplaying background. Such nations may also have mottos or nation names in Spanish or claim to have Spanish as an official language.

Some of these nations, when roleplaying, claim that the language was brought to their country by foreign invaders (thus emulating the real-life expansion of Spanish by colonialist policies), while others claim the language simply appeared naturally on their nations.

In the Aperinian context, Galdagan is to be asumed as the equivalent of Spanish.

Relevance in the Nationstates world

Spanish has gained a great relevance in the Nationsates world, some even claiming that it is second only to English. There is a good number of roleplaying nations that claim to have Spanish as an official language, making the language a moderately important presence in the Nationstates forums. In roleplaying, Spanish can be considered to be a secondary language along with some other languages which have spread because they are based on RL such as Dutch, or German. In some nations Quenya has taken the role of being an alternative lingua franca.

The real bulk of Spanish speakers, however, exists outside the forums, where the Spanish speakers of nationstates have created several regions and groups for them. There are many regions devoted only to Spanish speakers, as well as regions for nationals of several Spanish speaking countries.

Most people behind these nations are native Spanish speakers, coming mainly from RL Latin America and/or parts of the United States, though there is a good number of players coming from Spain as well.

Spanish Speaking Nations in Nationstates

These are the roleplaying nations that claim to have Spanish as an official language:

Alewares recognizes Spanish as one of its official languages.
BabyIgs recognizes Spanish as one of its official languages.
El Hefe recognizes Spanish as one of its official languages.
Galdago recognizes Galdagan as official language. Though a Spano-Italian amalgamation, the language is widely regarded to be the aperinian equivalent of Spanish.
Hell Bovines recognizes Spanish as one of its official languages.
Henrytopia recognizes Spanish as one of its official languages.
Knootian Colombia recognizes Spanish as one of its official languages.
Pacitalia recognizes Spanish as one of its official languages.