International Project

Spanish in Europe

Demography of the speakers of a language

Introduction

The interdisciplinary research project Spanish in Europe analyses the Spanish language in the old continent. It aims to provide a quantitative and qualitative description of the linguistic and cultural geography of Spanish and its speakers with a specific focus on the dynamics of migration, demography and education. The demolinguistic methods developed for this purpose enable us to understand the process of internationalisation of the Spanish language and is simultaneously useful as an empirical basis for language and culture planning.

News

Bleortu, C. et al. (2024): “Demolingüística del español en Rumanía, Bulgaria y Moldavia”, Madrid: Instituto Cervantes.

The project Spanish in Europe was recently awarded with the prize Premio de Hispanismo Internacional Fundación Duques de Soria. Read more about it here.

Direction: Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (Heidelberg University) and the University of Zurich

Presentación del libro “Demolingüística del español en Rumanía, Bulgaria y Moldavia”

Cooperating institutions

Tampere University FI                               Tbilisi State University GE
University of Tirana AL
University of Toulouse FR
University of Sarajevo BA                              University of Silesia PL                      University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice CZ
Sofia University BG
Ss. Cyril and Methodius U. in Skopje MK      Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava RO
University of Szeged HU                     

Contact

Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies
Brunnengasse 1
69117 Heidelberg

spanish@europa-hcias.de