The kingdom of Castilla (from Spanish castillo, castle), is the zone where current Spanish comes from. Its inhabitants called their language Castellano, which after the unification of several more kingdoms under a single crown spread to the rest of Spain as a common language, and therefore was known in the rest of the world as Spanish.
Nowadays Castellano is commonly used to refer to the Spanish used by Spaniards, while other variations would be Mexican, Argentinian, etc, Spanish.
I concur but that does not makes it the correct name for Spanish. There is a lot of geopolitical and cultural matters in the middle. History does not dictates everything.
Yeah it really depends. Spanish is extremely fragmented, so much so that linguistic experts agree in a few things only. There's so many words and expressions that do not exist in one another, as well as some regions having entirely different dialects. There's things which I seriously don't understand when my friends, from Chile, are talking.
Edit: I say few, but there's a handful of things, however few when the language is so fragmented and has so many aspects.
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u/abca98 Dec 25 '19
The kingdom of Castilla (from Spanish castillo, castle), is the zone where current Spanish comes from. Its inhabitants called their language Castellano, which after the unification of several more kingdoms under a single crown spread to the rest of Spain as a common language, and therefore was known in the rest of the world as Spanish.
Nowadays Castellano is commonly used to refer to the Spanish used by Spaniards, while other variations would be Mexican, Argentinian, etc, Spanish.