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donquijote.jpg(4 de diciembre, 2009).- Hoy empieza a circular la Nueva Gramática de la Lengua Española que sienta las bases del español del siglo XXI. La obra presta especial atención al español de América, en la línea de la nueva política panhispánica de la Real Academia Española (RAE).

 

Contenida en dos tomos y 4,000 páginas, es la primera gramática académica desde 1931 y el resultado de once años de trabajo de las 22 academias de la lengua española.

 

"Se ha procurado una gramática moderna y completa, en la que por primera vez se describe el español de todo el mundo (...) Se tiene, en estos dos enormes volúmenes, una descripción de las peculiaridades de la lengua que se habla en Europa y América", explica el director de la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua (AML), José Moreno de Alba.

 

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Spanish, the second language of economic exchange in 2011 Print E-mail

donquijote.jpg (February 18, 2008).- Spanish will be the second language of economic exchange in the world in the next decade and could exceed the number of English native speakers, according to a study presented in Madrid by Fundación Telefónica.

According to the study Spanish Economy. An introduction, this language multiplies by two to three times the market share of Spanish exports in the whole of Spanish-speaking countries, “a multiplier factor even greater than English in the Anglo-Saxon countries”.

This study of Fundación Telefónica, the first of 10 volumes that will be presented soon on the value of Spanish, also stresses that this language “multiplies by almost 2.5 the share of migrants coming from Spanish speaking countries”, which reduces the costs of integration.

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Languages face extinction Print E-mail

(February 21, 2008) – The International Year of Languages kicked off with a warning from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) that more than half the world’s 6,700 spoken languages are threatened with extinction and every two weeks on average one language disappears somewhere around the world.

Unesco Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura stressed the importance of all languages to everyday life.

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The challenges of Spanish Print E-mail

(October 1, 2007). - The Spanish language faces the challenge of becoming a language used in international communications if it can overcome its weaknesses: science and technology.

Despite the fact that it occupies third place in terms of the number of the world’s inhabitants who speak it (lagging only behind Mandarin Chinese and English), Spanish-language publications in the science and technology sphere represent only 0.5 percent of the total worldwide.

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Spanish is the second language most used by Google Print E-mail

(August 8, 2007). - After English, and ahead of German, Japanese and French, Spanish has become the second language most used for Google searches worldwide.  This was made known today by this company, famous for its search engine. 

According to Google, the intensive use of Spanish demonstrates the increase in Internet traffic in the region.

“The Internet is a vehicle for economic growth,” stated Gonzalo Alonzo, Google CEO for Spanish-speaking markets in the region.

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