• @Downcount
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    1011 months ago

    Well to be fair: Some regions in Spain really like to prefer to call it “Castellano”.

      • teft's transporter clone
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        111 months ago

        They call it español here in Colombia. I have heard spanish referred to as castellano but not generally from the locals here.

        • @[email protected]
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          411 months ago

          Indeed, it’s more used in Spain to differentiate it from Galician, Catalan, Basque, etc. In South America there is no need for that

          • @wieson
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            210 months ago

            In Paraguay they call it Castellano

    • @[email protected]
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      311 months ago

      Yes, because there are multiple Romance languages spoken in Spain, and they’re all “Spanish” to people who live there. Castellano is the one spoken in Madrid, so it’s what the rest of the world thinks of as Spanish, kind of like how Mandarin is often referred to as Chinese even though other dialects are equally Chinese.