claim: "spanish was the first european language spoken in this country."
author: tim kaine
evidence_1: spanish is the second most spoken language in the united states of america.  forty-five million hispanophones speak spanish as their first, second or heritage  language, and there are six million spanish language students in the united  states. this makes the united states the third-largest hispanophone country in  the ... spanish was among the very first european languages spoken in north ...
evidence_2: may 27, 2016 ... millions of americans speak spanish every single day. ... according to a 2013  pew report, spanish is the second-most spoken language in the country and  many ... spanish colonizers first set foot in the area that would become the united  ... all european languages, on the other hand, are more foreign to ...
evidence_3: the spanish language also called the castilian language ..... million as a first  language, 15 million as a second language, .... european union (excluding  spain), 460,624,488, 2,397,000 ...
evidence_4: nov 29, 2011 ... spanish, not english, was the first european language spoken in north ... the  u.s. is the second-largest spanish-speaking country in the world.
evidence_5: a brief history of the spanish language in the united states ... in the early  linguistic landscape of the country, as the spanish influence spread to .... mixco,  mauricio j. spanish loanwords in indigenous languages: the story of european- indian ...