Language Magazine – Staff Writer
“It is in the U.S. that the language is growing fastest, said the academic director of the Instituto Cervantes, Richard Bueno Hudson, at the opening of a recent program called “Evolution of the Spanish Language in the World.” David Fernández Vítores, a professor at the University of Alcalá, predicted that the “40 million Spanish speakers in the U.S. [will] overtake the native Spanish community [in Spain] in a decade.” Native speakers make up 480 million (477 million at the previous count)—434,875,921 who live in the Hispanic world and 45,353,721 who live outside of it.” (more)