Apotheosis of the Castilian language *1

Wallpainting by Luis Alberto Acúña at the Academy of Castilian Language in Bogotà.

Spanish is a part of the Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar L.. Read more »atin in Iberia after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. The oldest Latin texts with traces of Spanish come from mid-northern Iberia in the 9th century.

Country:	Colombia
Type:	Postage stamps
Series:	Castilian Language, 10th Cent.
Nominal:	11 $
Year:	1978
Perforation:	14
Mintage:	80,000