Evolution of Spanish

From the drum-wielding Paleo-Iberian princesses to the modern Spanish people we know and love, their language has come a long way since Latin, following a rather unique evolution featuring influence from Germanic, Celtic, Latin, other Romances, Semitic and Basque languages. MIND that this is specifically centred on the Castillian language. In reality, Spain has over a dozen regional languages which all have their own particularities, and this variant was very much born in a Basque bed of influence and only spread artificially under the influence of literature, education and - unfortunately - through General Franco’s repression of languages. Sources and Bibliography: Menéndez Pidal, Ramón. 1958. Manual de gramática histórica española (10th ed.). Madrid: Espasa Calpe. Phonological Retention and Innovation in the JudeoSpanish of Istanbul, Travis G. Bradley and Ann Marie Delforge, University of California, Davis Alvar, Manuel (1996, 2007). Manual de dialectologí