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Spanish is the informal name for the language properly known as Castilian. Castilian was not an invented language (like Modern Hebrew, Esperanto, Quenya, or Klingon) and as such you cannot point to one person who founded the Castilian Language. The people in north-central Iberia had a dialect of Latin that slowly changed over the centuries thought Late-Latin, to Hispanic Latin, to Early Castilian to Castilian. The dividing lines between these languages are arbitrary (the same way that the legal difference between an 18 year old and a 17 year old and 364 day old person is arbitrary). By around 1300/1350, the documents written in Castilian become understandable (although antiquated-souding) to modern Spaniards and by 1500, the documents become completely modern to the extent that there are only stylistic and spelling differences.

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