Karte von „Kastilisch“ versus „Spanisch“, um sich auf Spanisch zu beziehen

Philippines is weird because they refer to the colonizers as both “Español/espanyol” (spanish) or “kastila” (castilian). It’s not really any different to them. It’s synonymous word for spanish.

Weirder part is, they were technically colonized by New Spain (pretty much mexico) for most of the 300 years not Spain itself so their culture is closer to mexico than spain.

1. Why color in Western Sahara?

2. I find it funny how El Salvador and Uruguay are both little exclaves of the other.

In Spain I’d say it is Castilian. You very rarely hear anyone refer to it as Spanish, just when they talk about the language of the country to a foreigner. In fact when I lived there the Spanish classes were “lengua castellana”, books and everything

In the Philippines nobody really uses “Kastila” anymore unless they’re in some period drama or a history class. Historically we did back in the early 20th century and earlier but nowadays Spain is “Espanya” in most local languages.

Shit if we’re more honest we tend to use the english name more nowadays: Spain