Why is spanish the second most widely spoken language in the world?
Of the 190 countries in the world, Spanish is the official language of 21 countries, and is spoken in 44 countries. During the Spanish colonial period between 1492 to 1898, many people from Spain migrated to new lands they had conquered. The Spaniards brought with them their language and culture, and integrated with the society they had settled, creating a large empire that stretched all over the world and producing several multiracial populations. Their descendant are found in the following continents and countries that were originally colonized by the Spanish people. Spaniards invaded and in-slaved native and imported slave from Africa to these countries Mexico,Honduras,Peru,Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Trinidad, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua. In 1898, the United States won the Spanish-American War and occupied Cuba, Puerto Rico and the P
