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Language code: spa

Technical information about ISO 639 language code spa

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The table below provides technical details for the Castilian, Spanish language, designated by the spa code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

spa

Name

Official

Castilian, Spanish

Native

Español

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Peninsular (Castilian)AndalusianCanarianMexicanCentral AmericanCaribbeanAndeanRioplatenseChileanEquatoguinean
Related languages
PortugueseGalicianCatalanOccitanAstur-LeoneseItalian
Key facts
Spanish evolved from Vulgar Latin spoken in northern Iberia around the 9th centuryThe Royal Spanish Academy, founded in 1713, standardizes the languageThe letters 'ch' and 'll' were removed from the official alphabet list in 1994Spanish uniquely uses inverted question and exclamation marks (¿, ¡) at sentence openingsFlexible word order is possible thanks to rich verb conjugation and agreement
Sample phrase

Hola, ¿cómo estás?

Character encodings

ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-15, Windows 1252, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Castilian, Spanish language, identified by the code spa, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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