Honduras Language
The official language of the Republic of Honduras is Spanish, although being a country with a variety of indigenous groups also speak other languages of these groups themselves. Some languages of these groups have disappeared, but others still remain.
The 8 indigenous groups of Honduras that make up the population in a multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual. Its ethnic population is composed of 2% white, 3% Garifuna, 6% indigenous and 89% rest of the population is mestizo.
Due to the racial and cultural diversity is the Spanish language spoken in Honduras has been enriched with the passage of time have been entering the diaro discuss their inhabitants a lot of «Hondureñismos» which are words used by the Hondurans themselves to communicate. Some words are derived from other languages, but others have been created by the ingenuity and creativity of the people who seem to enjoy making up names for things.
The amount, variability and Hondureñismos use among people is so great that the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language included in its Twenty-first edition of his Dictionary, 1992, a total of 302 hondureñismos and the Twenty-second edition of 2001 included a 1,950 total hondureñismos, coming up with this for a total of 2,782 hondureñismos Dictionaries included in the SAR, among which also included 400 Hondurans gentile.
With this valuable input that Hondurans have made the world of speaking Honduras became one of the biggest contributors of new lexical items to editions of the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy of Language around the American Continent.
Many times we wonder what language we speak doubt a bit if say Spanish or Castilian language since there is much controversy about the correct term to be used, and do not know if the two terms are synonymous and right or use.
The controversy arises from the struggle to decide whether it is appropriate to use the term to differentiate Castilian one of the four languages spoken in Spain, and the other 3 the Catalan, Basque and Gallego and differentiate it from the language spoken in hispanoamérica.
To clarify this doubt say that Castilian was the first name that got our tongue have originated in Castile, Spain. In 1942 at the request of Queen Elizabeth the First was published grammar of the Spanish language. Soon after he began calling Spanish Language.
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