Talk:Spanish language in the United States

message: The article states that Texas does not have an official language.  Is that true?  I thought it had adopted English at some point in recent years.  (I remember the issue coming up a couple years ago, when one border town attempted to make Spanish its language of government.)   Funnyhat 20:21, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Texas?

message: I think the current entries should be deleted and/or replaced with new ones:
the name "American" presuposes *modern* (at least as old as the time the United States turned an independent nation) literature written in the Spanish language, not literature written in Spanish at very ancient times in parts of modern day U.S.A. that just happened to be under Spanish control at the time, or literature written by Spanish or Latin-American expatriates while in the States - those written samples, as wonderful individually as they may be, cannot qualify as "American" nor are they representative of work done by Spanish speakers born in the States.
If nobody else does it, I'll myself check up my books on "Chicano Literature" and bring up some names of modern authors, and replace those entries with them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TrollDeBatalla (talk • contribs) 22:05, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: American Literature in Spanish

message: "American Spanish" redirects here. Don't you think that an article named "American Spanish" should be about the difference between the Iberian Castillian and it's American (continent) counterpart? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.83.186.129 (talk) 00:09, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: American Spanish?

message: It's not clear in the infobox how many people in the US speak Spanish. Erinius (talk) 06:44, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Not clear in the rest of the article either. Erinius (talk) 06:48, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The article says there are 41 million native speakers, 60 million native speakers, and 38 million native speakers. That's about as clear as mud. Nosferattus (talk) 13:07, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I updated all 3 numbers with the most up-to-date info available (2019 American Community Survey). Nosferattus (talk) 13:15, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The article claims that the number of Spanish-speaking Americans surpasses the number of Spanish-speaking Spaniards. But if the number of speakers is 41 million, then this claim is clearly incorrect; Spain's population is 47 million (https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/spain-population/), and fluency in the language is over 99% according to recent metrics (https://www.abc.es/sociedad/abci-mitad-espanoles-habla-segundo-idioma-y-4-cada-10-elige-ingles-201711301207_noticia.html). Bosende (talk) 15:18, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of Speakers 

message: First off I think the note on childhood obesity should just be moved into the current status since it shows part of the social situation of Spanish in the US. Also the current status of Spanish in the US and its future are pretty closely connected so I feel the future status section should be moved up. I might make these edits in the future. Erinius (talk) 11:08, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Health, Future, and Current Status