In Spain and Spanish America outstanding figure celebrates on April 23 the DAY OF THE

LANGUAGE, in honor in memory of Don Miguel of Cervantes Saavedra, in the Castilian letters of all
the times, and that it has come to constitute as a symbol of the language that I help to forge.

Cervantes wrote in 1605 " The Ingenious Nobleman Don Quijote of the Spot ", the most famous of
the books of Castilian speech, qualified for understood as example of elegance, practical
philosophy, nobility of ideal, amenity and domain of the good Castilian, for what him one refers,
together with his author, in the celebration of the Day of the language.

The Spanish current language came being formed from the dialects used by the first settlers of the
Iberian peninsula in very remote times. But across centuries and centuries other peoples and
other dialects were modifying and enriching that primitive language. The presence of Phoenicians,
Celts, Greeks, barbarians, Latin people, Arabs, between others; I influence the transformation of
the Spanish. Up to coming to our Castilian of today, name taken of the former kingdom of Castile,
first where it was based and from where it spread on great part of the world, in which we speak it
today more than 500 million persons.

The Day of the Language is an honoring in memory of the great Spanish writer Miguel of Cervantes
Saavedra, who was contributing to the aggrandizement of the Spanish language for his
masterpiece “The Ingenious Nobleman Don Quijote of the Spot ". This novel, published in the year
1605, managed to consolidate our language and his author came to the top of the glory of the
Universal Literature, sharing honors with Homero, Dante and Shakespeare.

The deep reality of the personage has done that the famous gentleman “Don Quijote of the Spot
“turns into the universal symbol of the Spanish language. For the aptitude to have created a fable
and a series of prominent figures in those who fit the faults, the virtues, the weaknesses and
aspirations of the human life, Miguel of Cervantes was deserving the title of “Prince of the Spanish
Ingenuities ".

Cervantes was preparing a new version of “The Cuisse “that escenificaría apparently in America,
but after a painful disease it expired in Madrid, on April 23, 1616. Every year, every April 23, are
celebrated in the Spanish-speaking world the “Day of the Language ".

In Spain and Spanish America outstanding figure celebrates on April 23 the DAY OF THE
LANGUAGE, in honor in memory of don Miguel of Cervantes Saavedra, in the Castilian letters of all
the times, and that it has come to constitute as a symbol of the language that I help to forge.

Cervantes wrote in 1605 " The Ingenious Nobleman Don Quijote of the Spot ", the most famous of
the books of Castilian speech, qualified for understood as example of elegance, practical
philosophy, nobility of ideal, amenity and domain of the good Castilian, for what him one refers,
together with his author, in the celebration of the Day of the language.
Every April 23 it is celebrated the Day of the Castilian Language to give good results I pay Miguel of
Cervantes Saavedra. The celebration began in 1946 as an initiative of the Spanish writer Vicente
Clavel Andrés to remember the death of Cervantes.

A report presented by the Institute Cervantes in 2014 indicates that almost 470 million persons
take the Spanish as a mother language.

For June, 2015, 559 million persons, included the speakers of native, limited domain and students
of Spanish as foreign language, speak Spanish, according to information of the Institute Cervantes.

This April 23 also is a symbolic day for the world literature. The playwright and poet Englishman
William Shakespeare and the Peruvian Inca Garcilaso of the Vega also died in this date.

On April 23, day of the language

On April 23 there is celebrated the World Day of the Spanish
Language in honor Michael of Cervantes Saavedra, whom I
contribute to the growth of the language, and he died the
same day in the year 1616.
Also it is celebrated the International Day of the Book in
coincidence by the death of Cervantes, William Shakespeare
and the Inca Garcilaso of the Vega. The date is promoted
from 1995 by the UNESCO, in order to promote the writing,
the publishing industry and the intellectual protection by
means of the right
The aim of the Day of the Spanish Language while it is to
give impulse to this language and to his correct
implementation, promoting his utilization beyond the
educational institutions.
The Day of the Spanish Language has his origin in the year
1926, when the Valencian writer Vicente Clavel Andrés
proposed the idea of a special day to celebrate the
literature. The tradition began in Valencia and was spread
gradually in the whole Spain. In 1964, the celebration was
adopted as all the Spanish-speaking countries. On April 23
there is celebrated the World Day of the Spanish Language
in honor the writer Michael of Cervantes Saavedra, who
died on April 23, 1616 and whose novel " The Ingenious
Nobleman Don Quijote of the Spot " is considered to be the
greatest work of the Spanish language. In the same date,
but of the calendar juliano, died William Shakespeare. Also
they died in the different years, the Peruvian Inca Garcilaso
of the Vega and Vladimir Nabokov (in 1899). In some
countries it is commemorated simultaneously the Day of
the Book.

This commemoration tries not to help to spread and give

only impulse to the use of this language, but to promote his
healthy utilization, must not have an exclusively academic
and school character, but on the contrary, must spread to
all the sectors of the company, because the defense of the
language, his care and correct use induce to support the
cultural traditions of a people, since it is an element of
identification cultural that concerns the group.
The whole transmission of ideas and the intellectual
contacts, the interpretation of bibliographies and oral and
written mass media, as well as the conversation and daily
exchange of pareceres, has a base jointly: the language;
element indispensable and loaded with array author of
novels of manners.