Espanyol??!!

Hola everyone!

Can anyone tell me if there's any difference in WRITTEN castillian spanish and south american spanish please?Gracias!!

there is no difference
español - castellano
the proper name of the language popular know as español / spanish is castellano, there is no other,
just different ways to speak as they are in english, between england and the usa or any other english spoken country

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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/castellano
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castellano

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Well, actually, "yes."

But these minor differences in usage and vocabulary are hardly a cause for concern.

The pronunciation differences between one variety of Spanish and another can be learned in an hour or so. But the vocabulary/usage differences take longer, and are larger than between US and UK English, for example. They also vary quite markedly from one country to another in South America, and even more when proceeding to Mexico. But fortunately I have noticed very little difference of things like gramatical word endings.

I haven't noticed that Latin Americans switch to European Spanish vocabulary when they write. Or at least, not very much. For example, the words you see on road signs and public notices definitely use regional vocabulary. Though when I read a book by Vargas Llosa in the original, the literary master did seem to adopt a someone mid-Atlantic approach, with some choices that surprised me a little for a Peruvian. Though there are some regionalisms which would seem too informal for use in writing. For example I've never seen the vos form written down outside a grammar text (a second person singular form that fell out of use in most forms of Spanish, but is still current in Argentina), whereas you will certainly hear it when in Argentina.

Accents, vocabulary, and in some cases the grammatical structures are different between the two locations. However, if your question is in reference to the spelling of words, than the answer is no. If you wrote Espanyol, instead of español as a reference point, because you'd seen Spanish written this way, then you need to be looking at Djudeo-espanyol (Ladino - Spanish spoken by many Sephardic Jews) as the source of the spelling.

If you wrote Espanyol, instead of español as a reference point, because you'd seen Spanish written this way, then you need to be looking at Djudeo-espanyol (Ladino - Spanish spoken by many Sephardic Jews) as the source of the spelling.

Or Catalan.

hitchhiker, #1, Actually, even the Real Academia Española has changed their mind about this (español = castellano). They now say the proper name for the language is español and castellano should be reserved for the dialect of Spanish spoken in the region of Spain known as Castile.

I don't know about Spain, but in MOST of Latin America the naming of the language as castellano has fallen into disuse and has been replaced by español.

Even the wikipedia article you link to in #2 says the same, although it doesn't attribute it to the RAE: "Spaniards tend to call this language español (Spanish) when contrasting it with languages, such as French and English, but call it castellano (Castilian), that is, the language of the Castile region, when contrasting it with other languages spoken in Spain such as Galician, Basque, and Catalan ."

South american countries have their own regionalisms but that is all.
Argentina and Uruguay use "vos" for the second person singular.

"Though when I read a book by Vargas Llosa in the original, the literary master did seem to adopt a someone mid-Atlantic approach, with some choices that surprised me a little for a Peruvian."

In which book?

Wow!!Thank you all for your replies!!'ll be spending a month in Chile,Bolivia and Peru and am a little bit confused!!Anyway thanks again!!Muchas gracias!!

even the Real Academia Española has changed their mind about this (español = castellano). They now say the proper name for the language is español and castellano should be reserved for the dialect of Spanish spoken in the region of Spain known as Castile.

Interesting that this is at odds with the Spanish constitution, which says "El castellano es la lengua española oficial del Estado".

alan1972, #11, Not at odds at all! Since Spain has a number of quite different dialects of Spanish (although the folks who speak them call them separate languages), so the Spanish constitution MUST define which is the official language of State, and defines that as castellano. The translation for "El castellano es la lengua española oficial del Estado." is "Castilian is the official Spanish language of Spain."

This pretty much says that the castellano dialect is the only one to be used in official documents and doesn't disagree with what the RAE says at all.

Since Spain has a number of quite different dialects of Spanish (although the folks who speak them call them separate languages)

Which dialects/languages are you referring to?

alan1972, #13, Spain has quite a number of romance (latin based) languages, most considered by international linguists to be (nowadays) just dialects of Spanish, however, until the Franco years when they were deemed illegal and heavily suppressed, they were really separate languages. Since Franco, the illegality and suppression have ceased and some are making somewhat of a comeback.

The Wickipedia article lists three of these that are recognized by the Spanish government, Galician and Catalan are romance based and Basque, which is a true separate language, not related to Latin or Spanish. The other two that are recognized by the Spanish government are Aranian and Valencian.

There are several others however, Andalucian, Extremadurian, Murcian, Canarian and Aragonese. All of these were separate languages at one time or another, but they have fallen into such disuse that they are now considered just dialects of Spanish. After all, Castilian has been the "official" language of Spain since 1492. That means that all those languages have been ruled by speakers of the Castilian dialect for more than 500 years.

As far as your quote from the Spanish Constitution, here is the section about language in full:

Artículo 3 de la constitución española

In which book?

La ciudad y los perros

Please tell me if I'm wrong, but that was the perception I obtained reading it.

hmmm... that was the second book I had read in my life, first one was "Cien años de Soledad" of Gabo (García Márquez), and I was like 13 years old...
I remember I was just amazed with this two genius of the Latinamerican Literature...

As a peruvian teenager I didn´t found that approach at all. He wrote that novel when he was living in Europe...maybe that had influenced him at some point... I don´t know, I will have to read it again and found out about that.

Have you seen the movie?... Francisco Lombardi won as best director in 1985 the Festíval of San Sebastian in Spain.