Hispanophone Hispanophone Gigi Rice Category="Spanish language"A Hispanophone is someone that speaks the Spanish language either natively or by adoption. As an adjective, the word means "Spanish-speaking." The word originates with the name of the Roman province, Hispania. The Spanish translation of this word would be hispanohablante.

There are an estimated 417 million Hispanophones globally, making Spanish one of the most widely spoken languages in the world today. Hispanophone areas include Spain (where the language originated) and Hispanic America. There is a sizable Hispanophone minority in the United States comprising nearly 12% of the total population (about 30 million people) as well as smaller Hispanophone groups in Canada, northern Morrocco, Equatorial Guinea, and the Philippines, the latter three being former colonies of Spain.

See also

v.f. : Anglophone, Francophone, hispanophone, Lusophone