Spanish (español (help · info)), or Castilian (/ k æ ˈ s t ɪ l i ə n / (), castellano (help · info)), is a Romance language that originated in the Iberian Peninsula and today is a global language with more than million native speakers, mainly in Spain and the tramhostjatabaclemipricanarorkind.xyzinfo is the world's second-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese, and the world's fourth-most spoken.