Influences On The Spanish Language
The Spanish language has a long history of borrowing words, expressions and subtler features of other languages it has come in contact with.
Spanish developed from Vulgar Latin, with influence from Celtiberian (and possibly other Paleohispanic languages), Basque and Arabic, and Visigothic in the north of the Iberian Peninsula.
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