In 2060, almost five and a half centuries after the arrival of Juan Ponce de Leon in what is now Florida, The United States (EU) will become the second country with the most Spanish speakersaccording to a study released this Friday by the Hispanic Council.

Regarding Spanish Language Day this Sunday, the Council of Hispanics cited data from the Instituto Cervantes to indicate that 57 million people speak this language in the United States.

According to the census, Hispanics in the US make up almost 19% of the population and according to the report, by 2060, 27.5% of the US population will be of Hispanic origin..

“In less than four decades, the United States will become the second country in the world with the largest number of Spanish speakers,” the Council of Hispanics in Madrid said.

“The Hispanic community is heterogeneous, as is its relationship with Spaniards,” he added. “English is the most widely spoken language in the United States,” he explained.

Nevertheless, seven out of ten Hispanics use Spanish in their family environment, which “demonstrates that Spanish is a living language. which Latin Americans use for their cultural connections and for their professional activities.

According to the Council of Hispanics, in the United States 624 active Spanish-language media outlets and 91% of secondary schools offer classes in Spanish. In this country of over eight million students, the largest number of Spanish students.

The seed of the Castilian language was planted in 1513 by the Spaniard Ponce de Leon, a native of Valladolid, and there are now more Spanish speakers in the United States than in Spain, the report says.

Ten states, four territories and dozens of counties and municipalities have names in Spanish, the result of over 300 years of Spanish colonial presence.

The Spanish Council clarified that 26% of all Spanish speakers in the United States live in California, where the Hispanic population makes up about 40% of the total, second only to New Mexico, where the Hispanic community makes up almost half of the total population.

(EFE)