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Morocco
Morocco. No. 121.223.136.161 (talk) 11:09, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Morocco has some fluent Spanish and in addition, French speakers, due to proximity of Europe (i.e. Spain) and historic colonial rulers such as France. Not really a large Hispanophone or Francophone community left in Morocco and North Africa since the 1950's when the countries of Algeria and Tunisia became independent. 71.102.26.168 (talk) 08:39, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

US States gradually shaded, why not elsewhere?
ATTENTION: SPANISH IS AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE IN NEW MEXICO. PLEASE UPDATE. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.248.24.190 (talk) 17:35, 16 April 2014 (UTC) Several US States are shaded indicating Spanish speakers. Why don't we add shaded regions to other countries where Spanish is a minority language, such as Portugal, France, Brazil, The Philippines, Haiti, Guyana and Suriname? (I am assuming those countries have minority Spanish speakers, I only looked at their proximity to the Spanish speaking world on a map.) Rustyfence (talk) 02:43, 10 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Spanish is one of the world's top languages in the number of speakers and one of the six official languages of the United Nations. I sense Spanish is a minority language in every continent not limited to North and South America which has Spanish spoken throughout the continent extending into the isthmus of Central America. 71.102.26.168 (talk) 08:36, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
 * And on the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if Spanish is a minority language in a very few places in Spain itself, where people speak Castilian as a second language after Basque, Catalan, Galician etc. --86.144.1.182 (talk) 13:59, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Philippines, North Morocco and Western Sahara
Philippines must be added (Countries or regions where Spanish is spoken without official recognition, or where creoles are spoken of Spanish origin, with or without official recognition.)

1,816,773 Spanish + 1,200,000 Spanish creole: Antonio Quilis "La lengua española en Filipinas", 1996 pag.234 cervantesvirtual.com, mepsyd.es (page 23), mepsyd.es (page 249), spanish-differences.com, aresprensa.com. The figure 2,900,000 Spanish speakers, we can find in "Pluricentric languages: differing norms in different nations" (page 45 by R.W.Thompson), or in sispain.org./ More than 2 million Spanish speakers and around 3 million with Chavacano speakers according to "Instituto Cervantes de Manila" (elcastellano.org)

North Morocco must be added (Countries or regions where Spanish is spoken without official recognition, or where creoles are spoken of Spanish origin, with or without official recognition.)

Magdalena Roldán "El español en el contexto Sociolingüístico marroquí: Evolución y perspectivas (I)" Consejería de Educación en Marruecos. 2005 (http://www.educacion.gob.es/exterior/ma/es/File/MI%20ARTICULO%20PDF%20OK.pdf)

Western Sahara must be added (Countries or regions where Spanish is spoken without official recognition, or where creoles are spoken of Spanish origin, with or without official recognition.)

It is estimated that between 150,000 and 200,000 Sahrawi have Spanish as a second language: Bahia Mahmud Awah and Conchi Moya "El porvenir del español en el Sahara Occidental" 2009 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adeuagur (talk • contribs) 14:33, 17 September 2011 (UTC) --Adeuagur (talk) 14:35, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Argentina
There is no legislation in Argentina establishing spanish as an official language. So, the image legend or country color should be corrected. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.224.110.119 (talk) 20:15, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Key needs correcting
Leaving aside for a moment the squabbling about which country belongs and which one doesn't, might I point out that the key's colours represent 5-9.9%, 10-20%, and >25%. If this is to be believed, countries where 21-24% of people sspeak Spanish are not represented at all. Either this needs to be amended to 5-9.9%, 10-20%, and >20% or 5-9.9%, 10-25%, and >25%. (Perhaps this is the real reason Morocco's 21% Spanish speakers have been left off, rather than the yes/no arguing...) Grutness... wha?   11:21, 21 August 2012 (UTC)