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Originally Posted by poli
The reason why Iberian Spanish is called preferabalbly called Castellano is that there are several offical Spanish languages. They are not dialects but separate languages that include Catalan, Gallego and Basque and a Valencian dialect of Catalan.
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Hi there!
In Spain using Castellano instead of Spanish is just a bit of political correctness ... basically the idea is that all the languages of Spain are Spanish, including Basque (an excruciatingly difficult language that is not even in the Indo-European family) so we should use Castilian or Castellano instead of the generic term Spanish. The problem is that in Latin America there is only one type of Spanish (ignoring dialects) so the two are used interchangeably.