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There simply isn't sufficient need for simplified Spanish. There are estimated 390 mln people speaking Spanish, with 329 mln of them being native speakers. Thus only small minority (15%) of people speaking Spanish are non-native speakers. By contrast, there are estimated 1.5 bln people speaking English (on various levels), but only 328mln of them are ...

From this page (emphasis mine): Las contracciones al y del aparecen en la lengua escrita siglos antes de que existiera la Real Academia, como lo atestiguan numerosos documentos de entre los siglos X y XVIII. (...) Los académicos no hicieron sino recoger este uso, de manera que en la primera edición del Diccionario de Autoridades, en ...

All those word-roots have Latin origins as follows: duco : I lead voco : I call loco : I place ludo : I play mitto : I send Since most of those words have English cognates, I point you to the Internet Wayback Machine's link to the American Heritage Dictionary, which used to be free online, and had good etymologies.

En efecto, en español, las dos letras representan el sonido bilabial sonoro /b/. Las dos letras llegaron al español provenientes del latín, en donde sí tenían sonidos diferentes (bilabial para la b y labidental para la v) pero, en español siempre han tenido el mismo sonido, salvo por algunas excepciones regionales (por ejemplo en Valencia, en los ...

I was not aware of any attempts to create a single language that would be "simple Spanish". Still, you can find a lot of books written in simplified Spanish. They are called "lecturas graduadas" and are adapted for students of different levels. The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) defines six levels of knowing a language: ...

There have been various attempts made at forming "simplified Spanish" but none of them seem to have caught on as a "standard" in the same way Basic English has--very likely for reasons pointed out in @vartec's answer. You can read about one such proposal, apparently intended for accademic use, which suggests such simplifications as simplifying numbers by ...

I think that transformation is only when the /h/ or /f/ is the first letter. This transformation is related (in theory) to the preromanic languages, this case it's atributed to euskara substrat that also influences de aspirated /h/ is Gascon language. Sources: Historia del español Where we found: la desaparición de f- inicial en muchas palabras que en ...

Pues parece ser que es a causa de las abreviaturas de "et" en los escritos medievales y que no se fijó su uso como copulativa (en lugar de "i") hasta 1726. En el enlace de Etimologías de chile: origen de la letra Y está explicado. En la Edad Media la producción de documentos escritos, como ya sabemos, era manual y para agilizar los procesos de copia y ...

The text seems to be a judicial/police probe (official investigation) about as I read in the original thread seems to be if they are of pure blood (not from muslim or jew descents). Actually, that is what "provança" seems to mean, which nowadays is "probanza": (De probar). f. Averiguación o prueba que jurídicamente se hace de algo. "Dho" ...

First, it's important to clarify that there are many different versions of the Reina-Valera Bible. The Wikipedia article explains that the first version was published in 1569, and there have been many versions since. However, when people talk about the RVR, they are generally referring to the 1960 version. Since 1960 there have been additional revisions (the ...

Searching in Google Books, shows that translation being already used back in 1969. This is a newspaper/magazine called Hispano americano from 1969. Search for "dos de ellas" and "mariscal de campo". Take a look on the snippets of page 59, left column. It is definitely related to sports, possibly to American football. I know it is not a complete answer, but ...