Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. language-related concepts
5. [languages and writing systems]
6. [languages and writing systems by specific type]
7. Indo-European (language family)
8. Italic (languages)
9. Romance (languages)
10. Italo-Western (languages)
11. Western Romance (languages)
12. Ibero-Romance (languages)
13. Western Iberian (languages)
14. Castilian (group of languages)
15. Spanish (language)

Narrower term/s

• Castilian Spanish (language dialect)
• Mallorcan Spanish (language)
• Basque Country Spanish (language)
• Catalonian Spanish (language)

Anotations

Scope note:

Used to distinguish the variety of Spanish spoken in Spain, on the Iberian Peninsula, from other forms spoken elsewhere. To refer specifically to formal varieties of Spanish as spoken in Spain, use "Castilian Spanish."