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From the drum-wielding Paleo-Iberian princesses to the modern Spanish people we know and love, their language has come a long way since Latin, following a rather unique evolution featuring influence from Germanic, Celtic, Latin, other Romances, Semitic and Basque languages.
MIND that this is specifically centred on the Castillian language. In reality, Spain has over a dozen regional languages which all have their own particularities, and this variant was very much born in a Basque bed of influence and only spread artificially under the influence of literature, education and - unfortunately - through General Franco's repression of languages.
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