Editing Name of the Spanish language (section)

===Bilingual and multilingual regions of Spain===
In the regions where regional languages are spoken, there is a daily need to make the contrast between the [[national language]] and the [[regional language]] and so the national language is most often referred to as Castilian, particularly in the regional languages themselves (for example, ''espanyol'' is virtually never used to refer to the language in Catalan: ''castellà'' is used instead; in Basque, the name of the language is ''gaztelania'' or ''gaztelera'', rather than ''espainiera''; and in Galician, the most commonly used term is "castelán" rather than "español"). That is often mirrored by educated English-speakers to refer to the linguistic situation in Spain.

For some, this use of the term ''castellano'' is a political or cultural statement that Spanish is only the language of Castile, perhaps also of some areas that Castile colonised, but not the language of their region, which they consider the only legitimate language to be the regional one: Catalan, Basque, Galician etc. That stance is common in regionalist circles.

Conversely, some nationalist circles prefer the term ''español'' because they perceive their ethnic community to be distinct from that of Spain and therefore do not object to the language of Spain being called Spanish. In Basque-speaking regions, whose language is not of [[Romance languages|Romance]] origin (Basque is considered by many scholars to be a [[language isolate]]), some Basque speakers also use the term ''erdara'' or ''erdera'' <ref name="Morris">''erdara'' in the [http://www1.euskadi.net/morris/hiztegia.htm Morris Student Plus] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701020041/http://www1.euskadi.net/morris/hiztegia.htm |date=2007-07-01 }} Basque-English dictionary.</ref> (''foreign'') specifically for Spanish, since for them, it is the prevalent foreign language, just as in the [[French Basque Country]], "French language" is the usual meaning of ''erdara''; in fact, ''erdara'' is another language, different from Basque.