Spanish
Spanish is one of 99 world languages in the LEXOS registry, belonging to the Indo-European language family. Every word or phrase can be analysed across 6 linguistic levels: phonetics → phonology → morphology → syntax → semantics → pragmatics.
Ibero-Romance branch of Indo-European; Latin script. Official in over 20 countries across Spain and Latin America; the world's second-most-spoken native language, with regional variation centered on the seseo/distincion consonant split.
6 Levels of Analysis for Spanish
Other Indo-European languages
Frequently asked about Spanish
What language family does Spanish belong to?
Indo-European.
At which levels can I analyse Spanish?
Six levels: Phonetics (speech sounds, IPA), Phonology (phonemes and sound patterns), Morphology (word structure), Syntax (phrases and sentence structure), Semantics (literal meaning), Pragmatics (meaning in context).
Is Spanish one of the most spoken world languages?
Yes — LEXOS catalogues the 99 most-spoken / most-commercially-relevant world languages, covering every major language family and every continent.