Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Hi,

I've a question. When you're fixing the language in a book you find: "Spanish" and "Spanish;castilian". Which is the difference?

Thank you

Marisa

I would use this Spanish;castilian option if I was adding a book written when Castile was still a Kingdom in its own right i.e the Medieval period and the language spoken/written was Castilian rather than the modern day Spanish. I suspect it is just a way to be more granular in regards to the language of the book, in the same way that there is Old and Middle English on the list

There actually is no difference. Spanish; Castilian means one or the other, and appears in the alphabetical list. Spanish alone appears in the most-frequent list on top.

Both selections tag the book exactly the same way.

spanish is a language with many variations (even in spain alone) .castilian is the most commonly spoken form of spanish and, I think, the one you speak in the states

Generally spanish is also for South America, Castilian is for Spain. :)

For the people outside Spain is the same, the difference inside Spain is that over here we have 4 official languages, all of them are Spanish, because we all are Spanish, so castilian in for the Spanish language you know. The other ones are Bask, Galician and Catalan.
That's the explanation. Thanks for reading.

Don't sweat it... if you select "Spanish" from the top of the list, then it'll automatically change to "Spanish;Castilian", which is actually in order.

Sonsoles wrote: "For the people outside Spain is the same, the difference inside Spain is that over here we have 4 official languages, all of them are Spanish, because we all are Spanish, so castilian in for the Sp..."

I think some people I know wouldn't agree LOL (I'm Spanish myself)