{"id":9030,"date":"2013-06-04T12:50:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T16:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/?p=9030"},"modified":"2013-06-04T12:56:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T16:56:52","slug":"the-rise-of-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/the-rise-of-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Recently, The Story of Spanish was featured in\u00a0The Economist\u2019s Books and Arts section.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-05-31-The-Economist-The-Story-of-Spanish.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9022\" alt=\"The-Economist-The-Story-of-Spanish\" src=\"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-05-31-The-Economist-The-Story-of-Spanish-300x232.png\" width=\"240\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-05-31-The-Economist-The-Story-of-Spanish-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2013-05-31-The-Economist-The-Story-of-Spanish.png 775w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>The Story of Spanish<\/strong>. By Jean-Beno\u00eet Nadeau and Julie Barlow.\u00a0<em>St Martin\u2019s Press; 496 pages; $27.99.<\/em>\u00a0Buy from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0312656025\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0312656025&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=wwwnadeaubarl-20\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>THE Iberian peninsula was conquered and settled many times, but only one of those conquests was a long-term linguistic success. The languages of the Celts and the Iberians left little mark on Spain. The Phoenicians were no more successful, although they bequeathed a memorable nickname to posterity:\u00a0<em>I-shepan-ha<\/em>, \u201cland of hyraxes\u201d (more familiar as\u00a0<em>Hispania<\/em>). The Romans had better luck. Their soldiers\u2019 and settlers\u2019 vulgar Latin (always distinct from the written, classical kind) spread to the masses.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/books-and-arts\/21578631-spanish-has-more-native-speakers-any-language-other-mandarin-yet-its-success\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole article \u00bb\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, The Story of Spanish was featured in\u00a0The Economist\u2019s Books and Arts section. The Story of Spanish. By Jean-Beno\u00eet Nadeau and Julie Barlow.\u00a0St Martin\u2019s Press; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9030"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9036,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030\/revisions\/9036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}