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Spanish-speaking

Spanish-speaking

13 3.0
Able to speak or write Spanish
  • adjective
  • /ˈspænɪʃˈspiːkɪŋ/
translation icon : hispanohablante
  • A growing majority of residents in Miami are Spanish-speaking, and only 27.2% of the city's residents speak English only.
  • Spanish-speaking population
  • Spanish-speaking country
  • Spanish-speaking children

AI was able to make me into a fluent Spanish speaking journalist.

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Examples

  • There are a number of potential benefits to teaching cognates to Spanish-speaking ELL students with language impairment.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Both Radio Mil and Radio Cuzamil employ no more than twenty Spanish-speaking disc jockeys, reporters, and technicians.

    Academic text (1996)
  • And so I grew up surrounded by Spanish speaking family.

  • Children were identified as predominantly Spanish speaking when they met three of the following four criteria:

    Academic text (2012)
  • I just wonder what the Spanish-speaking members of the audience think.

  • This is a Spanish-speaking classroom.

  • This passage of the Quixote is one of the more anthologized ones in the Spanish speaking world.

  • Hollywood's renewed Spanish production had a brief yet significant impact on Spanish-speaking moviegoers in the United States.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Data from 110 preschool-aged, monolingual Spanish-speaking children served to test the proposed effects.

    Academic text (2012)
  • The conference will include presentations in both English and Spanish-speaking formats to accommodate all attendees.

Surface Forms

Spanish-speaking positive

Morphology

Spanish-speaking = Spanish + speak (transparent) = Spanish + speak + ing

This is a transparent compound adjective meaning 'speaking Spanish' or 'using Spanish in speech or writing'.

Etymology

Spanish-speaking is simply two parts: Spanish (the language named after 'Spain') and speaking ('to talk'), so it literally means 'talking in Spanish' or being able to communicate in Spanish.