Editing Demographics of Spain (section)

== Languages ==
*[[Spanish language|Spanish]] 99% (88% mother tongue<ref name="ec.europa.eu">{{cite web |url=http://ec.europa.eu/commfrontoffice/publicopinion/archives/ebs/ebs_243_en.pdf |title=Europeans and their languages|date=February 2006 |website= ec.europa.eu|publisher=European Commission}}</ref>) (official nationwide)
*[[Catalan language|Catalan]] 16%<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=ES|title=Spain}}</ref> (9% mother tongue<ref name="ec.europa.eu"/>) (co-official in [[Catalonia]], [[Balearic Islands]], and [[Valencian Community|Valencia]] — see [[Valencian language|Valencian]])
*[[Galician language|Galician]] 7% (5% mother tongue<ref name="ec.europa.eu"/>) (co-official in [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]])
*[[Basque language|Basque]] 1.6% (1% mother tongue<ref name="ec.europa.eu"/>) (co-official in [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque Country]] and designated areas in [[Navarre]]).
*[[Aranese]] (a variant of Gascon [[Occitan language|Occitan]]) is co-official in [[Val d'Aran]], a small valley in the Pyrenees.

''Others with no official status:''
*[[Astur-Leonese linguistic group|Asturian-Leonese]] (in the former [[Kingdom of León]] and [[Asturias]])
*[[Aragonese language|Aragonese]] (in the province of [[Huesca (province)|Huesca]], [[Aragon]])
*[[Moroccan Arabic|Arabic]] (in the autonomous city of [[Ceuta]])
*[[Tarifit]] (in the autonomous city of [[Melilla]])

=== First languages, 2021 official survey ===
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{| class="wikitable sortable col1left col2right col3right"
|+First language, 2021 census (2 years old or more)<ref>{{Cite web |title=INEbase / Demografía y población /Cifras de población y Censos demográficos /Encuesta de Características Esenciales de la Población y las Viviendas / Microdatos |url=https://www.ine.es/dyngs/INEbase/es/operacion.htm?c=Estadistica_C&cid=1254736177092&menu=resultados&idp=1254735572981# |access-date=2025-03-12 |website=INE |language=es}}</ref>
! rowspan="2" |Language
! colspan="2" |Initial language
|-
!Absolute
!Percentage
|-
|[[Spanish language|Spanish]]
|37,650,425
|81.53
|-
|of which only Spanish
|34,477,775
|74.66
|-
|[[Catalan language|Catalan]] (including [[Valencian language|Valencian]] and [[Balearic Catalan|Balearic]] )
|4,846,933
|10.50
|-
|[[Galician language|Galician]]
|1,742,974
|3.77
|-
|[[Arabic language|Arabic]]
|1,001,792
|2.17
|-
|[[English language|English]]
|730,251
|1.58
|-
|[[Romanian language|Romanian]]
|664,407
|1.44
|-
|[[Basque language|Basque]]
|658,030
|1.42
|-
|[[French language|French]]
|432,209
|0.94
|-
|[[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]
|251,497
|0.54
|-
|[[Chinese language|Chinese]]
|221,331
|0.48
|-
|[[German language|German]]
|205,289
|0.44
|-
|[[Italian language|Italian]]
|188,651
|0.41
|-
|[[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]]
|152,037
|0.33
|-
|[[Russian language|Russian]]
|147,864
|0.32
|-
|[[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]
|76,297
|0.17
|-
|[[Polish language|Polish]]
|61,926
|0.13
|-
|[[Berber languages|Berber]]
|59,797
|0.13
|-
|[[Dutch language|Dutch]]
|51,672
|0.11
|-
|[[Urdu]]
|50,983
|0.11
|-
|[[Guarani language|Guarani]]
|36,807
|0.08
|-
|[[Wolof language|Wolof]]
|34,581
|0.07
|-
|[[Asturian language|Asturian]]
|26,584
|0.06
|-
|Other languages
|347,363
|0.75
|-
!Total
!46,181,637
!>100.0
|}