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La tabla contiene un país africano donde el español no es idioma oficial (Gabón) La tabla no recoge a Puerto Rico cuyos idiomas oficiales son español e inglés.
Spanish is official in Gabon (in Cocobeach). —Preceding
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Recently, there was someone who made some massive changes to the page, adding several countries to the box that says Spanish is an official language such as Belize, Andorra, U.S., and Gabon. Spanish is not the official language of any of these. There were also entities added such as Melilla, Ceuta, and even a place in Antarctica. To make things easier, I was going to just revert all edits, but I wanted to see if there were any changes that anyone else thought should be kept. Kman543210 ( talk) 13:20, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
In Gabon (Cocobeach) and USA (Miami, New Mexico, another several cities of Texas, etc) Spanish is partially official.
Sorry, but New Mexico does not have any official language(s). Remove it from the map. Miami and other cities might print official documents in Spanish, but there is no official language in those cities either. Puerto Rico is the only place in the USA that has Spanish as an official language.
In Belize is a recognized regional lenguage. In Belize and Andorra is the most spoken language, and de facto, official. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.198.58.24 ( talk) 23:41, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
I did some more research, and the U.S. state of New Mexico does not have any official language. I've removed this part from the article as well as Spanish being an official language of Miami, Florida for now because I couldn't find any sources. Spanish does have special recognition in states like New Mexico, California, and other Southwest states, but it is not official at the state level. Kman543210 ( talk) 01:31, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
I'm going to remove both Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago from the list of countries where Spanish is commonly spoken. When I looked up the numbers to verify, there are only a few thousand of each which is a very small percentage: Jamaica 0.3% and Trinidad and Tobago 0.4%. I couldn't find anything stating that Spanish is common in those countries. As for Morocco, the percentage is even smaller at 0.06%, but the total number given from Ethnologue is 20,000, so I'll leave it there for now (sources say many are 2nd language speakers and French is the major 2nd language rather than Spanish). As for the Western Sahara part, I'm not sure there is a strong showing of Spanish speakers in that section since most sources say the Spanish speakers are to the north in Morocco. It was Spanish territory at one time, but more research will have to be done to determine the extent which Spanish is currently spoken there. Kman543210 ( talk) 05:51, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
TheDarkSavant ( talk) 16:12, 9 October 2015 (UTC) While this revert took place 7 years ago, today 5% of Trinidad's population speak Spanish, and most government offices have signs in Spanish, in addition to English, so I firmly believe Trinidad has to be there. If you hit the official website of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, you will see an article on the growing use of Spanish on the islands - http://www.ttconnect.gov.tt/gortt/portal/ttconnect/!ut/p/a1/jdDBCoJAEAbgp_HqjIqR3TyYqUFoVLqXUDO1dFd0lR4_9SaWNTCHGb4fhgECPhAadnka8pzRsBhmsro6royqpSl4cFFD2bMkA1VHMT2pB8EEeOa2B4Yq7Zyzgoj_5fFL6T_zx4TCBcgis3EG5meOYOEOG0hasGj8SaDTSFmnQOrkntRJLbZ1v844r5qNgALe2vg5dMrEmJUCfopkrOHgTyVU5cl_WQ-16Pb6GyFokU8!/dl5/d5/L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh/?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/gortt/wcm/connect/GorTT%20Web%20Content/ttconnect/home/about+t+and+t/general+information/language
I'm restoring Trinidad into the list.
12 million students of Spanish predicted makes it equal to 12 million speakers? Sorry for not being so optimistic about the Brazilian education system. Of course Portuguese language speakers have (even without studying) a big inteligibility of Spanish, but that doesn't make them Spanish speakers. I wonder if the Portuguese language students in Argentina and Chile count as Portuguese speakers as well... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.217.135.19 ( talk) 18:55, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
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Spanush is the offical lenguage de facto of Nicaragua and Dominican Republic, per articles 11 and 29 of their respective constitutions. -- Andresisrael ( talk) 18:57, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
Why doesn't the article mention Argentina, Mexico, or Chile? Or Nicaragua and Uruguay and Dominican Republic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jjjhein ( talk • contribs) 14:38, 14 October 2013
The has been a variant on the map currently being used to depict the countries, but another map was introduced a couple of days ago, then reverted.
I've checked both files at Wiki Commons: Castellano lengua oficial.png and Official Spanish language in the World.svg. The latter bears a legend indicating where it is the first language in dark green, and where it is a second language in a lighter green.
As neither provide WP:V and WP:RS for the maps, they are both speculative/specious. I'm going to query both versions on Wiki Commons. Obviously, at least one or the other has to deleted - possibly both. -- Iryna Harpy ( talk) 03:02, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
Spanish has the status of "optional language" in the whole territory. Does that mean it is an official language in the country? Well, for sure if it wouldn´t have any recognation of officiality they would just not mention the language in any status. We can talk then of a "weak co-officiality" or "secondary co-officiality" but a co-officiality anyway. -- BernardaAlba ( talk) 14:10, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
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La tabla contiene un país africano donde el español no es idioma oficial (Gabón) La tabla no recoge a Puerto Rico cuyos idiomas oficiales son español e inglés.
Spanish is official in Gabon (in Cocobeach). —Preceding
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19:26, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Recently, there was someone who made some massive changes to the page, adding several countries to the box that says Spanish is an official language such as Belize, Andorra, U.S., and Gabon. Spanish is not the official language of any of these. There were also entities added such as Melilla, Ceuta, and even a place in Antarctica. To make things easier, I was going to just revert all edits, but I wanted to see if there were any changes that anyone else thought should be kept. Kman543210 ( talk) 13:20, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
In Gabon (Cocobeach) and USA (Miami, New Mexico, another several cities of Texas, etc) Spanish is partially official.
Sorry, but New Mexico does not have any official language(s). Remove it from the map. Miami and other cities might print official documents in Spanish, but there is no official language in those cities either. Puerto Rico is the only place in the USA that has Spanish as an official language.
In Belize is a recognized regional lenguage. In Belize and Andorra is the most spoken language, and de facto, official. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.198.58.24 ( talk) 23:41, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
I did some more research, and the U.S. state of New Mexico does not have any official language. I've removed this part from the article as well as Spanish being an official language of Miami, Florida for now because I couldn't find any sources. Spanish does have special recognition in states like New Mexico, California, and other Southwest states, but it is not official at the state level. Kman543210 ( talk) 01:31, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
I'm going to remove both Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago from the list of countries where Spanish is commonly spoken. When I looked up the numbers to verify, there are only a few thousand of each which is a very small percentage: Jamaica 0.3% and Trinidad and Tobago 0.4%. I couldn't find anything stating that Spanish is common in those countries. As for Morocco, the percentage is even smaller at 0.06%, but the total number given from Ethnologue is 20,000, so I'll leave it there for now (sources say many are 2nd language speakers and French is the major 2nd language rather than Spanish). As for the Western Sahara part, I'm not sure there is a strong showing of Spanish speakers in that section since most sources say the Spanish speakers are to the north in Morocco. It was Spanish territory at one time, but more research will have to be done to determine the extent which Spanish is currently spoken there. Kman543210 ( talk) 05:51, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
TheDarkSavant ( talk) 16:12, 9 October 2015 (UTC) While this revert took place 7 years ago, today 5% of Trinidad's population speak Spanish, and most government offices have signs in Spanish, in addition to English, so I firmly believe Trinidad has to be there. If you hit the official website of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, you will see an article on the growing use of Spanish on the islands - http://www.ttconnect.gov.tt/gortt/portal/ttconnect/!ut/p/a1/jdDBCoJAEAbgp_HqjIqR3TyYqUFoVLqXUDO1dFd0lR4_9SaWNTCHGb4fhgECPhAadnka8pzRsBhmsro6royqpSl4cFFD2bMkA1VHMT2pB8EEeOa2B4Yq7Zyzgoj_5fFL6T_zx4TCBcgis3EG5meOYOEOG0hasGj8SaDTSFmnQOrkntRJLbZ1v844r5qNgALe2vg5dMrEmJUCfopkrOHgTyVU5cl_WQ-16Pb6GyFokU8!/dl5/d5/L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh/?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/gortt/wcm/connect/GorTT%20Web%20Content/ttconnect/home/about+t+and+t/general+information/language
I'm restoring Trinidad into the list.
12 million students of Spanish predicted makes it equal to 12 million speakers? Sorry for not being so optimistic about the Brazilian education system. Of course Portuguese language speakers have (even without studying) a big inteligibility of Spanish, but that doesn't make them Spanish speakers. I wonder if the Portuguese language students in Argentina and Chile count as Portuguese speakers as well... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.217.135.19 ( talk) 18:55, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
A discussion has been started at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries/Lists of countries which could affect the inclusion criteria and title of this and other lists of countries. Editors are invited to participate. Pfainuk talk 11:16, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Spanush is the offical lenguage de facto of Nicaragua and Dominican Republic, per articles 11 and 29 of their respective constitutions. -- Andresisrael ( talk) 18:57, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
Why doesn't the article mention Argentina, Mexico, or Chile? Or Nicaragua and Uruguay and Dominican Republic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jjjhein ( talk • contribs) 14:38, 14 October 2013
The has been a variant on the map currently being used to depict the countries, but another map was introduced a couple of days ago, then reverted.
I've checked both files at Wiki Commons: Castellano lengua oficial.png and Official Spanish language in the World.svg. The latter bears a legend indicating where it is the first language in dark green, and where it is a second language in a lighter green.
As neither provide WP:V and WP:RS for the maps, they are both speculative/specious. I'm going to query both versions on Wiki Commons. Obviously, at least one or the other has to deleted - possibly both. -- Iryna Harpy ( talk) 03:02, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
Spanish has the status of "optional language" in the whole territory. Does that mean it is an official language in the country? Well, for sure if it wouldn´t have any recognation of officiality they would just not mention the language in any status. We can talk then of a "weak co-officiality" or "secondary co-officiality" but a co-officiality anyway. -- BernardaAlba ( talk) 14:10, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
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