Francophone (French) and anglophone (English), how do you call Spanish speakers?

[WhatTheHellAmy]

[detlef]

It is "hispanophone." Portuguese-speaking is "lusophone," by the way. :) There's also sinophone, russophone, etc. Unlike the names of languages, when written properly these words are not capitalized.

[WhatTheHellAmy]

I did capitalize the first one because I was starting the question.

Does that work for spaniards too? Hispanophone?

[detlef]

If they speak Spanish, then yes. These words only pertain to language spoken. A Spaniard can be sinophone. :) And yeah you always capitalize a word a the beginning of a sentence. Hehe. :)

[WhatTheHellAmy]

Oh, so is sinophone? Thanks a lot! I didn't know that.

Sinophone would include all the other countries where the most spoken language is Spanish, right?

[WhatTheHellAmy]

I just saw haha, that's for Chinese!

[detlef]

Yeah. If you're from la Patria, you're probably hispanophone. I KNOW you're anglophone. But you might be sinophone too, I don't know. :)

[WhatTheHellAmy]

Well, I'm hispanophone.
English is my second language

[detlef]

You don't quite seem to know what these words mean. :) The "-phone" suffix just means "-speaking." So you are both hispanophone and anglophone, at a minimum. It has nothing to do with geography or native language. Okay? :)

[WhatTheHellAmy]

Oh okay, thanks for the info!

[detlef]

Merci y gracias. :)

[WhatTheHellAmy]

De nada, de rien et you're welcome XD

[JuicyBrain]

Bonjour Amy 😊
In french and in English, we say hispanophone.
You would say hispanohablantes

[WhatTheHellAmy]

Bonjour!

Merci beaucoup 😊

[JuicyBrain]

@asker
After reading the comments, I wanted to add that we do indeed have the word catalophone which would be a more literal translation for castellanofonos. They seem to be synonymous.

[WhatTheHellAmy]

Thanks a lot for that!!!

[fauchelevent]

Pretty sure we don't categorise like that, we'd mostly just assume they were Spanish and call them that.

[WhatTheHellAmy]

Yeah, I know, but when it comes to countries you say stuff like "anglophone" or "francophone" countries. That means that in those places they speak English or French.

We use that in Spanish very often... At least I do, but ironically I don't know how to call countries where the most spoken language is Spanish.

[fauchelevent]

Ehh, the English tend to not be the most caring, so we kinda just lump everyone together, which is why we probably don't really have a word for it (or at least, not a commonly used one). The closest I can think of that I heard is maybe Hispanic.

[WhatTheHellAmy]

Yeah, you're right. 2 helpful gagers told me that it's hispanophone.

Thanks! 😁

[Femdomina]

I call them on the phone, LoL :P

[WhatTheHellAmy]

Hahahaha XD

[Femdomina]

Thanks :)

[detlef]

That was hilarious.

[Femdomina]

Thank you :)

[WhatTheHellAmy]

Welcome 😁

[Yumix]

Hispanophone or Hispanosphere you fucking XP/notification whore. you could have googled that in 10 seconds xD

[WhatTheHellAmy]

I did it baby! XD couldn't find shit lol

Thanks for the compliment

[Yumix]

of course you did... 😂
https://i.minus.com/iblUifKFqpGh5k.jpg

and you're welcome haha

[WhatTheHellAmy]

Can't see your gif lol

[Yumix]

no gif, just the first google result when searching for Spanish speakers lol
https://i.imgur.com/xrC97qB.jpg

[WhatTheHellAmy]

Didn't sound right to me, I thought it was referring to Latin American countries

[Yumix]

because of the name? reading the first 2 sentences would have helped haha ;)

"Hispanophone (Spanish: hispanohablantes, hispanoparlantes or hispanófono; also castellanohablantes, castellanoparlantes, or castellanófonos) or Hispanosphere denotes Spanish language speakers and the Spanish-speaking world. The term derives from the Latin political name of the Iberian Peninsula, Hispania."

or do you wanna say that almighty wikipedia is wrong? :P

[Yumix]

but it's okay... looking for questions to ask too, my notifications bar is so empty :(

[WhatTheHellAmy]

Yeah, because of the name.

The "hispa" part makes me think it's more like Latin American countries and that excludes Spain.. But I googled that the term Hispanic refers to those countries that were colonized by Spain or that have a link to said country.

In Spanish I'll say "castellanófono" and in English I guess the best would be "hispanophere"

I wish it could be a word like "castellanófono" in English...

[WhatTheHellAmy]

The equivalent of castellanófono in English is hispanophone, I know... But that sounds like "hispanófono" in Spanish, that would be the literal translation.

Aaaand, believe me, you don't want many notifications

[Yumix]

I want :D
eat least more than currently... I'm super bored :(

[WhatTheHellAmy]

My mytakes lol are driving me crazy, the notifications from there are many.

Just ask lot of questions and do mytakes, you'll get many.
I don't want notifications, I only want points XD

[Yumix]

I know... but I don't know what to ask xD

and just posting some stupid stuff is... meh

[Yumix]

but what I hated was after you got tons of replies, selecting both MHO haha

on my "why should (n't) people date you" questions I got 100+ replies... that was some work reading again through it lol

[WhatTheHellAmy]

Oh yeah, I hate that you.

Yup, I hate reading long stuff and many answers

[HookingSwan]

I searched for Spanish speaking people and saw nothing. guess it had to be Spanish speakers :P mr know it all lol

[WhatTheHellAmy]

@HookingSwan ikr! He's accusing me of searching for xper points

[Yumix]

of course I do, you were really desperate for them the last weeks. worse than a junkie on withdrawal xD

@HookingSwan with "spanish speaking people" it's still the second result :D

[HookingSwan]

lol I didn't see it :P @Yumix

Almost looked like hispanophobe :D

[Yumix]

@HookingSwan haha that's a good one too 😂

[WhatTheHellAmy]

Yeah I know hahaha but not this time, I had a real question!

[Yumix]

okay, then let me humbly apologize to you ;)

[WhatTheHellAmy]

Apology not accepted 😂😂😂

[Yumix]

😒😒😒

[WhatTheHellAmy]

You know I'm kidding euro hottie 😂😂😂

[Yumix]

of course I know 😘

[Maxemeister]

Spaniards. Hispanophones. Fucking Mexicans. I don't know ANYMORE. AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[WhatTheHellAmy]

It's hispanophone lol

[HookingSwan]

anglosaxonic people i guess

[WhatTheHellAmy]

Nope, that's for Germanic tribes

[HookingSwan]

oh sorry

i saw you asking how u called English people

Spanish... I don't know

[WhatTheHellAmy]

Oh okay haha thanks a lot anyways! 😁😁

[HookingSwan]

lol thanks but no thanks u mean lol :P

I trued searching on wikipedia but saw nothing about it by the way :/

[HookingSwan]

tried*

[WhatTheHellAmy]

Hahahahaha XD not at all! Thanks for answering hun! Haha

Don't worry, Yumix and detlef answered
my questions

[matheus_mb]

How would you call Portuguese speakers?

[WhatTheHellAmy]

@detlef told me it was "lusophone"

[matheus_mb]

"lusophone", yeah, it makes sense.

[Bluemax]

Hispanophone?

[WhatTheHellAmy]

Does that include spaniards too?

[jacquesvol]

Sorry, I hadn't seen your answer.

[TonyRyan]

Spanglophone? I don't know

[QuestionMan]

According to Wikipedia it's Hispanophone

[ThatBritishLad]

I'd prefer to use email.

[Evil_romantic]

I usually just use a regular phone, lady!

[FrenchEmma]

Hispaniques

[jacquesvol]

Hispanophones?