[OC] Population with only Spanish as first language by spanish province, 2021 census survey

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1. It’s pretty interesting that Spain managed to hold on to its regional languages longer than France, Italy and U.K.  

2. I created this map with QGIS, analyzing the data from the microdata file publicly available on the spanish institute of statistics INE’s website http://www.ine.es/dyngs/INEbase/es/operacion.htm?c=Estadistica_C&cid=1254736177092&menu=resultados&idp=1254735572981#

3. Inb4 debate whether it is called spanish or castillian.

4. “Only Spanish first language” doesn’t make sense. You can only have one *first* language.

5. I don’t believe it. The Spanish speak Spanish??!??!!?

6. I get the basque and the catalan, what’s the language used in the northwest ?

7. For anyone curious about the other languages from the same source, here it is the list

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Spain#First_languages,_2021_official_survey

8. Also serves as a pretty accurate electricity outage map

9. During the Middle Ages, Arabic was more common in Andalusia and several major cities than Latin. Latin was slowly becoming vulgar Latin and then Spanish.

10. Galician and Catalan are so close to Spanish they’re almost just a dialect, like Swiss German to German.

    Basque on the other hand is out of control. It’s a truly different language that no one else without knowledge of it will understand at all.

11. I was expecting way less Spanish in the Basque country and way more in Barcelona.

12. What does ‘only’ mean in this context? Seems like, in Spain, it would be a common language to hear.

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