where does the spanish language come from?
Spain
entailment
 The Spanish introduced the Latin script , which was used to record a large body of Aztec prose , poetry and mundane documentation such as testaments , administrative documents , legal letters , etc . In a matter of decades pictorial writing was completely replaced with the Latin alphabet . No standardized Latin orthography has been developed for Nahuatl , and no general consensus has arisen for the representation of many sounds in Nahuatl that are lacking in Spanish , such as long vowels and the glottal stop . The orthography most accurately representing the phonemes of Nahuatl was developed in the 17th century by the Jesuit Horacio Carochi , building on the insights of another Jesuit , Antonio del Rincon . Carochi 's orthography used two different diacritics : a macron to represent long vowels and a grave for the saltillo , and sometimes an acute accent for short vowels . This orthography did not achieve a wide following outside of the Jesuit community . 

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 The revolt , fresh in the memory of Spain , is referenced in several literary works during Spain 's Golden Age . Don Quixote references the rebellion in a conversation with Sancho , and Francisco de Quevedo uses the word " comunero " as a synonym for " rebel " in his works . 

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 An example of this concept is presented in Saporta ( 1965 : 223 ) with a phonological difference between Castilian and Uruguayan Spanish : 

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 The oldest account of the language dates to 1855 , when the French ethnographer Justin Cenac @-@ Moncaut located the Erromintxela primarily in the Northern Basque Country . The oldest coherent Erromintxela text , a poem entitled Kama @-@ goli , published by Basque writer Jon Mirande in a collection of Basque poetry , only dates to ca . 1960 . 

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 After the decentralization of political power in late antiquity , Latin developed locally into branches that became the Romance languages , such as Spanish , Portuguese , French , Italian and Romanian , and a large number of minor languages and dialects . Today , more than 900 million people are native speakers worldwide . 
