The 5 Languages of Spain & What They Sound Like 

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The fact that Spain has multiple sign languages is also worth mentioning.

Catalan is spoken not only where it is mentioned in this video, but it is also the official language of Andorra.

As a Portuguese I love Spain, specially Galicia, since they're literally brothers to us, we originate from them. Saludos cálidos españoles

The fact that occitan only survives in spain goes to show how brutal france was with its languages

Technically, not _all_ "al-" words come from Arabic, one exception coming to mind is "alto/alta", meaning "high/tall" and coming from Latin

Catalan is the national language of Andorra. It‘s worth mentioning that Aranese is a dialect of Occitan, the indigenous language of Southern France.

The surprising thing is not the number of languages that are spokenn in Spain but the fact that 5 of them are oficially recognized. In France, besides French they have Breton, Basque, Catalan, Occitan, Corsician, Galloise, several german dialects, Flemish..... In the UK Irish, Manx, Scotish Gaelic, Scots, Normand in the Isles of The Channel, Welsh... But they only recognize a dingle "national" language. Diversity is everywhere. You have to be brave enough to accept it.

I'm so happy you used as example of the catalan listening a Mallorcan speaker of catalan. I'm from Mallorca and I'm glad not always hearing the Barcelona variety of the language. I don't know if it was on purpose or random, but it was super nice, thank you

I am a Portuguese Speaking Brasilian, I met a couple of Spanish, Galician speaking Tourists once. When they spoke Portuguese, their Galician language actually made them sound more like a Brasilan speaking Portuguese, than an actual native Portuguese speaker of Portugal!

Little confusion. The official flag of Catalonia doesn’t have a star on it.

Hello, spanish guy here. Just two things: 1) The flag you presented is not the catalan flag, but the flag of a political party (you may notice that the flag you present here is similar to the flag of Cuba, Catalonian flag is much older than that) 2) Spain has also a whistle language (La Gomera island). Have a look

4:03 that is Porto in PORTUGAL! Not Catalonia.

This is very interesting! Well made video!

Thank you from Galicia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

very underrated, nice video

There was an image from outside the São Bento station in Porto used to visualize the use of Catalan...

I really enjoyed this video! Keep up the good work, looking forward to the next one :)

This was so well put-together and edited! It was lovely hearing about all these languages, as languages of Spain are an interest of mine. I spent the past year living in Galicia, and I had the pleasure of talking to many different people about Galego. There are so many different opinions! On top of being suppressed by Franco's dictatorship, Galicia was (until recently) a very poor region and thus the language was looked down upon as Spanish was the more "higher-class" language. This surprised me as an outsider because I find the language so beautiful! However, now there seems to be many efforts among the younger generation to speak Galego with pride. You'll also find many elderly people speaking, as they grew up only speaking it. There seems to be a large generational gap, as the parent generation may not teach their children the language or only speaks Spanish at home. The children understand and learn the language in school, but mainly speak Spanish. That being said, all documents are written in both Galego and Spanish, and many speeches are given in Galego. There is such a strong culture in regards to music, festivals, dress, and food regardless of what the people are speaking! Galicia has strong Celtic roots, so there are many bagpipe festivals where people dance and sing in Galego. They have a style of playing the tambourine (pandeireta) that is so fascinating and amazing to watch. In regards to the language, it was the same language as Portuguese until 5-10 centuries ago until the region was incorporated into Spain. Over time, the Spanish language has influenced it strongly and it lost many of the Portuguese sounds (for instance nasalized vowels) to sound more Spanishized, but maintaining a shared vocabulary with Portuguese. However, it still has a few sounds that Spanish doesn't have, for instance the letter "x", which is like the English "sh", as well as the dipthongs "ei" and "ou". Often you'll see cognates between Spanish and Galego that have the following sound changes respectively: J-X, E-EI, O-OU, and H-F. This ended up being a longer writeup than I expected, but I really loved learning about Galego when I was there! Eu no falo galego agora, pero quero no futuro!

The images of San Sebastián (7:51) do not belong to the Basque Country, I assume they are from San Sebastián de la Gomera, a city located in the Canary Islands.

Mirandese speaker here! Want to remind you that mirandese is not spoken in Spain! It’s spoken in northeastern portugal!

¡Muy interesante! - Por mi parte, debo decir que, la primera vez que escuché a alguien hablar gallego, pensé que era un español tratando de hablar portugués jajaja... (no conocía el gallego en aquel momento). Por otro lado, si no me equivoco, el vasco es uno de los idiomas anteriores a las invasiones y conquistas ocurridas en la península ibérica y es, de ellos, el único que ha sobrevivido.

I am 50% Catalan and 50% Aranese. 20% Asturian. Thank you very much for this very accurate summary about us. I think it's beautiful that other countries in Europe and the UK are known and talked about us. Thank you for this! keep it up!

Why at 4:04 you show a picture of the city of Porto in Portugal?

Great video, keep it up! Just some minor corrections: Catalan is also spoken officially in the Valencian Country; Asturian, Leonese and Cantabrian are considered the same language; and the Fala is considered a dialect of Galician

Corrections: 1. Valencian is officially considered a different language from Catalonian and, occasionally, considered part of one language system. Very few people consider it to be Catalan in Spain and 2. Euskera is spoken in the Basque Country and central and Northern Navarra. Suggesting anything different may be offensive to some people

Great video, and very informative! Keep up the good work. Just a minor correction: at the end of the video, you included Mirandês as one of many other languages from Spain . This is wrong. Mirandês is actually spoken in Portugal (although not by many people nowadays) and it's (still) the second official language in Portugal.

Espanya ye un puesto molto diverso. Tamién son diferents agora estoi comentando ne’l Aragón, no pas en castellán. En realidat, os parllantes d'Aragonés pueden capiscar-se facilment Catalán y Occitán dan poc dificultat. 😁

As a Brazilian I understand Galician perfectly

The flag displayed here to represent Catalan, with the star, isn't the official flag of Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, or anything else, it's an unofficial flag representing independent Catalonia, as in the thing that the independence movement in Catalonia tried to do (most people in Catalonia don't want it to be independent, and, even if they did, there also isn't currently any legal pathway for Catalonian independence). This flag represents a rather controversial issue, so perhaps be more careful next time when choosing a flag. Also, there are other languages in Spain. Firstly, the language of "Aranese" is just a dialect of the larger language called "Gascon", one with significant influence from Aragonese. Gascon itself is a dialect group of Occitan, or a language very closely related to it. Secondly, other languages with no current recognision as official languages do exist and have some local protection. These include Astur-Leonese (which is divided into Asturian (with lots of dialects), Leonese, Montañese, and Extremaduran), Aragonese (which has different varieties named after the valley or zone they're spoken arround), a mix of Asturian and Galician (now called Eo-Navian, though traditionally called Galego-Asturiam, or just "Fala"), a mix of Portuguese, Spanish and Extremaduran (refered to as "Fala of Xalima"), and a few other minority varieties. Asturian and Aragonese specifically are in the process of becoming recognised as official languages, though the high variety of dialects makes establishing a standart dialect difficult. Still, thx for covering the topic.

Excellent video! I sub'ed

Spain lover here. 🇪🇸 I really wish to learn their language there. 😊

As native Galician speaker I consider my language and Portuguese as the same language. In the same way there is a Brazilian and an European Portuguese variant. So, in my opinion, Galician should be using our traditional spelling similar to the one used by the Portuguese and Brazilian today, instead of the Castilian Spanish spelling currently used by the Galician government which is foreign to our language. When visiting Portugal I speak in Galician and I can see how Galician and northern Portuguese dialects share the same words and a very similar pronunciation. This closeness is because Galiza and Portugal share a common history. In fact, Portugal was part of the Kingdom of Galiza during the Early Middle Ages. Then, in the 12th century, Portugal became an independent Kingdom but the two countries have maintained a strong cultural and economic connection ever since. In recent years, Galiza and Portugal have continued to strengthen their relationship through various initiatives, such as the EU Galiza-North of Portugal Interregional Cooperation Programme, which promotes collaboration and exchange in areas such as tourism, culture, and entrepreneurship for the benefit of both countries.

Como Colombiana, ya, sabía de las lenguas de España, pero no sabía del estudio y cobertura que está tomando éste tipo de temas gracias a la web. Felicitaciones por éste video tan ilustrativo, agradable y novedoso.. .. ❤

The guy speaking Euskara seemed to me to have a Castilian cadence, much as Argentines speak Spanish with an Italian cadence. And I enjoyed Ocho Apellidos Vascos (and Ocho Apellidos Catalanes). I watched Cuerpo en Llamas recently, set in Barcelona, and all the actors seemed to be speaking Spanish rather than Catalan, but official pronouncements were in Catalan (i.e. I couldn't understand them).

Mozarabic was the one that was used primarily as a bridge between Spanish and Arabic speakers during the reconquista.

Other Spanish languages: OMG we have a lot of words that sound similar Basque: *alien speech*

Very interesting video, thank you very much! Could you maybe do the same on languages in France/French dialects? That would be great as well. Keep up the great work!

I'm from Brazil and I can speak fluently Spanish and English and i Loved this video

Soy brasileño hablante de castellano y claro, portugués, y a vivir en España ahora 😊

When you start talking about the Catalan language, we are shown some images of Barcelona, and suddenly we come acoss one dispay of Porto in Portugal. Seemingly not the same... Thank you anyway for your video!

I haven't began to watch but seeing the language names I'm thinking Asturian, Aragonese, soanish sign language, valencian sign language...( perhaps I should watch to see if these are mentioned?). Anyway Sir, I salute yuur efforts in making this piece highlighting these languages.

Por eso cada vez más digo que hablo castellano, no español. Y además vivo en Buenos Aires, así que es castellano rioplatense.

wow bro , that video was dope, i didn't know all of that, I speak castellano I guess?since I'm from El Salvador

Actually are more than 5 languages in Spain Spoken by the people in Asturias and Leon the people speak Asturianu is not yet official but is spoken by many people and also in the Canary Islands specialy in la Gomera the people comunícate between themselves with the Silvo wishpering words thru the mountains.

Good video but some pictures are wrong. When speaking about Catalan there's a picture of Porto ( Portugal ) when speaking about San Sebastian in the Basque Country there's a picture of San Sebastian de La Gomera in the Canary Islands.

Due to the spanish occupation, a variation of Catalan is also spoken in the city of Alghero (sardinia, Italy).

My favourite theory, about the Basque language, is that it's the last surviving language from before the PIE people took over Europe.

If you want to hear some ‘cleaner’ Basque speaking I can recommend y’all a 90s band named ‘Sorotan Bele’ you can already tell it’s not Spanish, the singer has a nice crystalline voice and the music is pretty great ;)

@4:03 that looks more like Porto in Portugal

i was a bit confused by Aranese (which i read up and found out to be an Occitan dialect) being an official language, but not the larger Aragonese (tbf both aren't big, but Aranese really is just a tiny corner on the map) it might be interesting to look into the differences between those too specificially. is the similarity in name pure coincidence or are they culturally linked and if the latter, did they somewhat influence each other?

La foto que pones de San Sebastián no es de Donostia San Sebastián de Euskadi

Nice

There was another Kingdom, Navarra.

Great video but, as a tour guide of the Basque Country and teacher of Basque I must say something: It is quite noticeable that among all the languages ​​you have chosen, the one you have researched the least by far has been Basque, which in fact is linguistically the most interesting or most different one. It's the only one you haven't even pronounce at the intro, and you even made a fast check of info and pics as you even took the wrong pic for Basque San Sebastian, choosing a pic from San Sebastian de la Gomera in the Canary Islands. I saw your spanish is perfect, and as a tour guide I invite you to know better the Basque Country, in order to be able to distinguish Canary Islands' landscape and look with the Basque Country's. And last for the choosing of the Basque Speaker, you just chose the first video after browsing "Basque speaker" on youtube and in fact, the most popular doesn't mean the best. That video belongs to a Basque whose first language is Spanish and who is able to speak Basque at a B2 level, who speaks in the video using a super spanish accent and intonation, and comes out with spanish connectors and spanish pet words. I don't blame you because I know it's a hard language, but I had to write you this in order to let know your viewers that the information and facts given about our language are poor and innacurate. Basque is spoken in Navarre in a wider area that the oneyou shown and Basque did was spoken 3 hundred years ago in many of the areas you stated became Basque speaking ones for the first time. Then as it happens with catalan, Basque is spoken in France as well, in the French Basque Country. Eskerrik asko hala ere zure ekarpenagatik, eskertzekoa da eta ;)

4:04 is a photograph of Porto, Portugual 🤔

I’m half Catalan half Galician so I have 3 native languages 😅. Castilian also has Iberian and Celt words and also Germanic words.

Catalan, like Basque, straddles the border between Spain and France. Northern Catalonia, sometimes known as Roussillon, is in the modern French departmnet of Pyrénées Orientales. "Aranese" is not a language in itself, but rather a Gascon dialect of the Occitan language spoken in Southern France from Bordeaux to the Alps, including parts of Piedmont in Italy.

In 1860, before French schooling was made compulsory, native Occitan speakers represented more than 39% of the whole French population. (See Vergonha in Wikipedia). It’s funny (or sad) that now the only place where Occitan (Aranés) is official is not in France but in Spain… 🤔

Are there many Ladino speakers left in Spain?

And in Valencia!!

The Catholic Kings also expelled the Jews from Spain as well. It would be nice if you edit this in. They took Judeo Spanish to N.Africa, Greece and Turkey etc. This language is still spoken today and gives scholars a good insight as to the Spanish of 1492 . This language is called Ladino.

You cool man. I speak all of them except euskera ❤

Did not expect him to have an English accent at the beginning.

El búlgaro (Una lengua de eslava)y el español tienen muchas vocabulario similares: mi -mi(moy)，me-me，te-te，tres-tri,sol-slance,viento-viat，y-i

Five official languages. India: Hold our beers, all 22 of them

The banner used to indicate "catalan" is absolutelly weird: Is NOT the oficial catalan one (no star), is not even the independentist catalan banner (with a white star nd a blue triangle, not the leftish independentist one (red star and yellow triangle).

Isn’t there a specific type of Spanish in Valencia?

You literally chose the Basque speaker with the THICKEST Spanish accent possible, wth man?

Aranese is actually a dialect of Occitan.

Great video, but you gave some grong information from the beginning. The Castilian and Aragonese kingdoms were not separated but united and then created the Spanish kingdom. It is highly probable that Castilian originated from a basque speaking community. Also, by the way you explained it, it seems catalan originated or diverged from vulgar latin in spain but spanish and Catalan are from two different romance branches, and catalan diverged from occitan and therefore from galoromance. You could have said more about basque language, a language isolate, and also mention another of its very famous capitals, Baiona/Bayonne and give another example of a speaker. That one was not the best as he clearly isn't a fluent speaker, problably a learner or new speaker.

You are missing Asturian, Cahtuo, Aragonese and Fala. Though Spain do not recognise them as languages, they indeed are languages!!

Where did the Z sound come from?

El cántabro no existe. Existen dilectos del asturiano hablados en Cantabria.

Most of that Pep Guardiola Barça team weren't Catalans, but players raised in Barça's academy 'La Masía'.

Correction: although Basque is an isolated language, when spoken it has a lot of similarities with Spanish in intonation and phonetics.

There're more languages in Spain such as extremeño and bable/asturianu, tho they're not co-official. There are versions of Wikipedia in those languages 😁

To my non Spanish speaking ear (can ears speak?) the Basque you presented sounded like Spanish, so I suspect some linguistic influence on the accent, probably from Spanish to Basque. With Occitan I hear a French accent, absent from Catalan. And with modern Breton I hear a strong French accent, absent from old recordings.

On catalan, the video with the red outdoors, it is portuguese.

The guy speaking in basque definitely is not a native basque speaker. Actually he is speaking the language with difficulties.

Este verano estuve en Occitania, en el Val d'Aran y tuve la oprtunidad de escuchar este dialecto del Occitano que es el aranés.

Algo parecido a Italia.

How come lunch in Spanish and Arbic are very different? Almuerzo Spanish but something else different in Arabic

Hi - thanks for the video. The official name of the language spoken in Valencia is 'Valencian', not Catalan. Valencia and Spanish are co-official languages (pelase see Article 6.2 of the Statute of Autonomy of the Autonomous Community of Valencia). Although Catalan and Valencian are considered the same language from a scientific perspective, there are quite notable differences in both conjugation and vocabulary.

What about ladino?

O galego é lindo demais. 😊

Eres un poco ignorante, el arabe y el bereber no han contribuido a la pronunciación y acento de los dialectos del español dentro de España, obviamente entraron palabras en el idioma, como en todos las regiones cuando interacconan diversas culturas. Pero los acentos de los diferentes dialectos del castellano y sus pronunciaciones se derivan del latin vulgar/ romance que mas tarde pasó al castellano medieval/antiguo y después al actual castellano. Cuando los reinos cristianos reconquistaban los territorios hacia el sur, expulsaban a la minoría arabe de esa zona y se repoblaba con los campesinos que venian del norte de los reinos cristianos, todos de origen ibero-celta. Y es mas cuando llegaban del norte se encontraban con una población mayoritaria ibero-celta que estaba bajo dominio arabe. No hace falta ser muy inteligente para saber que cuando los árabes invadieron España derrotando a los visigodos, se estableció un ejército y llegó una pequeña población del norte de África, y en Hispania en la actualidad llamada España, ya habia una población hispano-romana de origen ibero-celta de 5 millones de personas (españoles actuales) Todo esto para que te informes un poco mas cuando hables de historia de un pais y su idioma el cual no es tu lengua materna. El español actual tiene su acento y pronunciación derivado desde un poco tiempo después tarde de la caida del Imperio romano hasta hoy en dia, y ni el árabe ni el bereber han influido, y es muy diferente a que si que hayan entrado palabras lo cual es normal dado la interacción entre cristianos y musulmanes, y ademas las palabras que se adquirían, se latinizaban adecuando a la pronunciación del castellano medieval. Todo al reves del lo que has dicho.

What about asturianu? :/

¿Ya no se habla aragonés? ¿Y qué hay del asturiano?

Cantabrian? Central and western parts of Cantabria are heartlands of Castilian and the western part speaks Asturian.

And in Rússia????

España debe dar libertad a los Vascos, libertad a los hermanos y hermanas Vascos.

Arabic origin is marked by Al- and Ar- prefixes (not Az-). Azúcar is Al-sukkr. Got it? Other examples: armario, arcabuz, alcotán, altramuz, etc.

Asturianu y aragonés que?

El valenciano no se ha mencionado.

What about the Valencian language? That's 6!

The image you showed for San Sebastian is wrong, I think it's somewhere in the Canary islands (nowhere near lol). Also, although this isn't your fault, the video you put to show how basque is unfortunately not the best. The guys first language is clearly Spanish and the sentence I think doesn't make a lot of sense.

I wish Asturian and Aragonese could have been included. Although not official, they may still have more speakers than Aranese.

I mean you can pretty easily understand them all most of the time.

i thought valenciano was also one of them o: