• Canadian_Cabinet @lemmy.ca
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    5 hours ago

    This is pretty spot on. I use español when comparing Spanish to another foreign language but castellano when talking about the language as a whole. The latter is the most popular in Spain because español is also the nationality and we also can speak catalán, vasco, valenciano, gallego, and others

    • davel@lemmy.ml
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      4 hours ago

      From what I’ve been told they call it castellano in Argentina too, but I have no idea why.

      No ho diguis als valencians que ells parlen catalá occidental 😛