Why is spanish spoken throughout central and south america?

Portuguese is the majority language of South America, by a small margin. Spanish, with slightly fewer speakers than Portuguese, is the second most spoken language on the continent. read more

Central American Spanish (Spanish: español centroamericano or castellano centroamericano) is the general name of the Spanish language dialects spoken in Central America. More precisely, the term refers to the Spanish language as spoken in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. read more

This is why certain words in Castilian Spanish and Latin American Spanish sound quite different even with identical spellings. The combination of all of these historical and sociological events has caused the evolution of the distinct form of Latin American Spanish spoken today in Central and South America. read more