In 2060, almost five and a half centuries after the arrival of Juan Ponce de León in what is now Florida, the United States will be the second country with the most Spanish speakersaccording to a study released this Friday by the Hispanic Council.
about the Spanish Language Daywhich is celebrated this Sunday, the Hispanic Council cited figures from the Instituto Cervantes to point out that 57 million people speak that language in the United States.
According to the Census, Hispanics in the United States are almost 19% of the population and, according to the report, by 2060, 27.5% of the US population will be of Hispanic origin.
In less than four decades, the United States will be the second country in the world with the highest number of Spanish speakersjust behind Mexico “,
noted the Madrid-based Hispanic Council.
“The Hispanic community is not homogeneous, nor is its relationship with Spanish,” he added. “English is the most widely spoken language throughout the United States,” she explained.
However, seven out of ten Hispanics use Spanish to communicate in the family environment, which “demonstrates that Spanish is a living language that Hispanics use for their cultural ties and for their professional projection.”
According to the Hispanic Council, there are 624 active Spanish-language media outlets in the United States and 91% of high schools offer classes in Spanish. This country has, with more than eight million students, the largest number of Spanish students.
The seed of the Castilian language was planted in 1513 by the Spaniard Ponce de León, a native of Valladolid, and now there are more Spanish speakers in the United States than in Spain, added the report.
Ten states, four territories and dozens of counties and municipalities have names in Spanish, the result of the Spanish colonial presence for more than 300 years.
The Hispanic Council specified that 26% of all Spanish-speakers in the United States are found in California, where the Hispanic population is close to 40% of the total, only surpassed by New Mexico, where the community of Hispanic origin represents almost half of the total of the population.
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