Roughly 329 million people speak Spanish as they're native language, and more than 20 nations speak Spanish as their primary language.
The Spanish language originated in Castilian, a region in Spain. More than 60 million people speak it as a second language, and more than 329 million people speak it as their native language. Spanish is one of the "Romance languages," a series of languages that came from Latin. More than 20 countries speak Spanish as one of their National languages, and it it one of the core languages taught in school around the world.