Language and Religion of Spain

Before the second Republic was founded in 1931, relation between the Holy See and the Spanish Government were regulated by the Concordat of 1851.

The Republican Government refused to recognize the Concordat, but under the Franco regime Roman Catholics has once more becomes the religion of the state. A new agreement made with the Holy See in 1953 at Rome replaced the Concordat of 1851. There are at present 10 metropolitan sees and 64 suffragonsees in Spain. Toddled is the chief ecclesiastical city, and the primate of Spain resides there. There are about over 26,000 Protestants who maintain over the 200 churches and in 1959, the Jews (numbering about the one thousand) established their first synalogogue since 1492.

LANGUAGE

The official language of the country is the Castilian variety of Spanish. Castilian si spoken in its purest form in the island regions. The regions of Asturias, Aragon, Leon and act eristic accents. The Galician language is still largely spoken in the northwest, and it’s closely related to Portuguese. In Catalonia and the Levant, Catalan has an old literary tradition and is deeply rooted in all classes. In Murcia, the peasant language is a variety of Valencia which belongs to the Catalan group Esker, is particularly remarkable because it is unrelated to any other European language.