Editing Name of the Spanish language (section)

===="Language of Cervantes"====
The term {{lang|es|lengua de [[Miguel de Cervantes|Cervantes]]}} as an [[epithet]] for the Spanish language began to be used early in the 19th century. [[Mariano José de Larra]] uses the expression in his essay {{lang|es|Literatura}}, first published in 1823.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ChN1_ZcABqkC&dq=%22lengua+de+Cervantes%22&pg=RA1-PA66 ''Obras completas''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408101039/https://books.google.com/books?id=ChN1_ZcABqkC&dq=%22lengua+de+Cervantes%22&pg=RA1-PA66 |date=2023-04-08 }}, Vol. 4 (Madrid: José M. Repullés, 1837), p. 66.</ref> In 1829 it appears in {{lang|es|Una cuestión de derecho}}, by Manuel Sivela.<ref>Paris: Gaultier-Laguionie, p. 185.</ref> Soon after that it appears in an anonymous article in the {{lang|es|[[Gaceta de Madrid]]}}.<ref>"De las traducciones", No. 64 (May 29, 1832), p. 264.</ref> The poet Nicasio Camilo Jover, in his poem {{lang|es|Miguel de Cervantes}}, states directly {{lang|es|Y la lengua del pueblo castellano / Hoy se llama '''la lengua de Cervantes'''.}}<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=eAqvjn2ftP0C&dq=%22lengua+de+Cervantes%22&pg=PA227 ''Glorias de España: Poesías históricas''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408101040/https://books.google.com/books?id=eAqvjn2ftP0C&dq=%22lengua+de+Cervantes%22&pg=PA227 |date=2023-04-08 }} (Madrid: D.F.A. Fernel, 1848), p. 227</ref> Spanish is called {{lang|es|el idioma de Cervantes}} in a book published in 1830,<ref>Rafael Díaz Arenas, [https://books.google.com/books?id=tHsa1sTWRt0C&dq=%22idioma+de+Cervantes%22&pg=PT136 ''Memorias históricas y estadísticas de Filipinas y particularmente de la grande isla de Luzón''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408101039/https://books.google.com/books?id=tHsa1sTWRt0C&dq=%22idioma+de+Cervantes%22&pg=PT136 |date=2023-04-08 }} (Manila: Diario de Manila)</ref> and in another one published in 1838.<ref>"El Tío Cigüeña" (pseud. of Juan Mieg), [https://books.google.com/books?id=3nVIf8-NubcC&dq=%22idioma+de+Cervantes%22&pg=PA67 ''Cuatro palabras á los señores traductores y editores de novelas''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425210946/https://books.google.com/books?id=3nVIf8-NubcC&dq=%22idioma+de+Cervantes%22&pg=PA67 |date=2023-04-25 }} (Madrid: Hijos de Doña Catalina Piñuela), p. 67.</ref>

Occasionally the term refers to the language of [[Spanish Golden Age]] literature generally, rather than simply to that of Cervantes.<ref>For example Héctor M. Ardila A. and Inés Vizcaíno G., [https://books.google.com/books?id=W2hcVra7ZScC&dq=%22lengua+de+Cervantes%22&pg=PA14 ''Hombres y mujeres en las letras colombianas''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425210948/https://books.google.com/books?id=W2hcVra7ZScC&dq=%22lengua+de+Cervantes%22&pg=PA14 |date=2023-04-25 }} (Bogotá: Magisterio, 2008), p. 14: "La lengua clásica, la lengua de Cervantes y Fray Luis de León".</ref>

"The language of Cervantes" in English—as a term for the Spanish language generally—comes into use in the 1840s. Examples appear in Janin (1841)<ref>Jules Janin, [https://books.google.com/books?id=JRUaAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22language+of+Cervantes%22&pg=PR11 "Biographical Notice of Le Sage"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408060238/https://books.google.com/books?id=JRUaAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22language+of+Cervantes%22&pg=PR11 |date=2023-04-08 }}, in ''Asmodeus: Or, the Devil on Two Sticks'' by Alain René Le Sage (London: Joseph Thomas, 1841), p. xi.</ref> and Campbell (1849).<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rF8LAAAAIAAJ&q=cervantes&pg=PA149 ''Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408060240/https://books.google.com/books?id=rF8LAAAAIAAJ&q=cervantes&pg=PA149 |date=2023-04-08 }}, ed. William Beattie (London: Edward Moxon, 1849), Vol. 2, p. 149.</ref>

While quotations and expressions from Cervantes' work are still in use, the actual language and spelling that Cervantes used can sound archaic to modern readers.
Modern editions may modernize it to appeal the current public.<ref name="Planeta">{{cite web |title=Don Quijote de la Mancha - Andrés Trapiello {{!}} PlanetadeLibros |url=https://www.planetadelibros.com/libro-don-quijote-de-la-mancha/197934 |publisher=Planeta de Libros |access-date=24 November 2022 |language=es-es |date=2015-06-02 |quote=la dificultad de un castellano, el del siglo XVII, más alejado ya del nuestro de lo que se cree. |archive-date=2022-11-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124182242/https://www.planetadelibros.com/libro-don-quijote-de-la-mancha/197934 |url-status=live }}</ref>