The concept of western language family used to refer to western languages, including English, German, French, Spanish and other language majors. Relative to this concept, it is an oriental language family, including Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Mongolian, Persian and other language majors. Today's English department is independent.

Because today's Spanish is also called "Spanish" for short, the "Spanish Teaching Department" differentiated from that time is also called "Spanish Department" for short. It is also a western language family, but its meaning will be different in different times.

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Spanish is called Spanish for short and belongs to Indo-European-Roman-West Roman branch. According to the number of speakers of the first language, about 437 million people use it as their mother tongue, making it the second largest language in the world, second only to Chinese. The number of people who use Spanish accounts for 4.84% of the world population, and the total number of users of the first language and the second language is nearly 570 million.

Among the seven continents, mainly Latin American countries (except Brazil, Belize, French Guiana, Haiti and other places). Spanish is called Spanish in Spain, the United States, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and parts of Colombia. In other areas, Spanish is mainly called Castilian. Spanish is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.

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