Influence of modern Spanish
Very often languages have influence on other languages,on which languages has modern Spanish the greatest influence?
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La influencia del español se deja sentir sin lugar a dudas en el mundo angloparlante, por ejemplo: la cafetería, el aficionado, el incógnito, el burro, el armadillo, la bonanza, la banana, la armada, el cargo, el corral, el rodeo, el embargo, y muchísmos otros vocablos que no tengo tiempo de transcribir acá.
En otros idiomas seguramente que también el español ha causado gran furor e influencia, pero me limito al mundo anglo que conozco de igual forma que el español.
This is an interesting question, because it is more usual to ask what languages influenced the development of modern Spanish, not the other way around.
Since most of the modern languages were already pretty well formed by the 16th century, I don't know if modern Spanish had a sigificant effect on the major European languages. However, in those areas in which Spain was acolonizing force, the indiginous languages were obviously affected, either in their elimination or alteration. I'm not an expert, but perhaps an ancient indiginous language like quechua (Perú) would fit this description.
The first Spanish grammar was written for Nebrija in 1492 under the mandate of the Queen Isabel de Castilla and her husband Fernando de Leon and that is the base of the modern Spanish. The Spanish is one of the "lenguas Romances" (that descend from Latin)and the base of the language is an historic evolution from the vulgar latin spoken for centuries in the the place.. Spanish has a strong influence from arabic (remember the moros conquer and stay in the actual Spain for 7 centuries)and most of the word that start with al are an evolution from arabic (like algoritmo, alcoba,almohada) and ,of course a lot of prefixes come from the greek (same in English)like hemo(hemoglobina), anti (anticuerpo)etc
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