es
Technical information about ISO 639 language code es
The table below provides technical details for the Spanish language, designated by the es
code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
Spanish belongs to the Indo-European language family, more precisely to the Romance subgroup. It is officially used in more than 20 countries, dependent territories, and among significant minorities. It is also widely used by international organizations such as the European Union. It is written using Latin script (Spanish alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 500 million speakers worldwide.
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Spanish speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
es-419
– Spanish (Latin America and the Caribbean)
es-AR
– Spanish (Argentina)
es-BO
– Spanish (Bolivia)
es-BR
– Spanish (Brazil)
es-BZ
– Spanish (Belize)
es-CL
– Spanish (Chile)
es-CO
– Spanish (Colombia)
es-CR
– Spanish (Costa Rica)
es-CU
– Spanish (Cuba)
es-DO
– Spanish (Dominican Republic)
es-EC
– SSpanish (Ecuador)
es-ES
– Spanish (Spain)
es-GQ
– Spanish (Equatorial Guinea)
es-GT
– Spanish (Guatemala)
es-HN
– Spanish (Honduras)
es-MX
– Spanish (Mexico)
es-NI
– Spanish (Nicaragua)
es-PA
– Spanish (Panama)
es-PE
– Spanish (Peru)
es-PH
– Spanish (Philippines)
es-PR
– Spanish (Puerto Rico)
es-PY
– Spanish (Paraguay)
es-SV
– Spanish (El Salvador)
es-US
– Spanish (United States)
es-UY
– Spanish (Uruguay)
es-VE
– Spanish (Venezuela)
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