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Juan Carlos I of Spain said that Spanish has never been imposed. Reyes

23
years ago

23 April 2001,

Juan Carlos I of Spain said that Spanish has never been imposed. Kings. “No one has ever been forced to speak in Spanish. There were many peoples who voluntarily assumed the language of Cervantes,” he said in the Cervantes Awards, despite the fact that hundreds of Basques have been subjected to the Spanish empire and documented attacks, convictions and impositions against the languages and cultures of the territories.

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