Language Info

Spanish written in Latin script

Below you'll find all the characters used to write this language and all the countries where this language is used.

Standard Characters

The minimal characters required for this language

Auxiliary Characters

Additional letters (beyond the minimal set) used in foreign or technical words found in typical magazines, newspapers, etc..

Punctuation Characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning

Unicode Blocks

Spanish uses characters from the following Unicode blocks

Countries

The worldwide literate language population for Spanish is 476,841,407 people across 37 countries.

Mexico

103,397,250 people
83.00% literate in Spanish

Spain

48,468,618 people
99.00% literate in Spanish

Colombia

44,359,605 people
93.00% literate in Spanish

Argentina

44,293,300 people
100.00% literate in Spanish

Philippines

32,319,360 people
31.00% literate in Spanish

United States

31,356,097 people
9.60% literate in Spanish

Venezuela

25,669,280 people
82.00% literate in Spanish

Peru

22,656,791 people
73.00% literate in Spanish

Chile

17,433,514 people
98.00% literate in Spanish

Ecuador

15,639,264 people
96.00% literate in Spanish

Guatemala

14,378,451 people
93.00% literate in Spanish

Cuba

11,147,400 people
100.00% literate in Spanish

France

8,723,806 people
13.00% literate in Spanish

Dominican Republic

8,372,676 people
78.00% literate in Spanish

Honduras

7,050,217 people
78.00% literate in Spanish

Bolivia

6,794,302 people
61.00% literate in Spanish

El Salvador

5,493,088 people
89.00% literate in Spanish

Germany

4,835,640 people
6.00% literate in Spanish

Nicaragua

4,700,241 people

Costa Rica

4,683,747 people

Uruguay

2,956,932 people

Puerto Rico

2,916,092 people

Panama

2,589,666 people

Romania

2,153,000 people

Canary Islands

2,056,618 people

Portugal

1,083,950 people

Equatorial Guinea

677,171 people

Paraguay

222,199 people

Ceuta & Melilla

147,000 people

Belize

100,896 people

Brazil

76,720 people

Andorra

36,851 people

Morocco

22,091 people

Gibraltar

14,698 people

Curaçao

5,686 people

Sint Maarten

5,049 people

Trinidad & Tobago

4,141 people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places, and we want to give them credit here. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes that support the language.

  1. Unicode CLDR
  2. CLDR Exemplar Characters