Santiago Muñoz Machado presents at the Cervantes Institute Hablamos la misma lengua ('We Speak the Same Language'), his encyclopedic exploration of how one language united the New World.

Upon entering the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language (RAE) in 2013, jurist Santiago Muñoz Machado from Córdoba was surprised to realize that, in spite of the overabundance of studies about the phonetic differences in the speech of the American nations, "there was very little research about the miracle of how a nation so far away managed to impose his own as a universal language in the face of so many indigenous languages, ??" from the Patagonia to the Bravo River. His curiosity and his passion for law, linguistics, politics, and the history of the colonization of Hispanic America were his motivations for the creation, after five years of work, of his book Hablamos la misma lengua ('We Speak the Same Language') (Criticism), "a truly significant contribution to the knowledge of the development of the Spanish language in America," according to the Honorary Director of the RAE, Víctor García de la Concha, who on Wednesday presented the book together with its author at the headquarters of the Cervantes Institute, accompanied by the director of the Institute, Juan Manuel Bonet, and the deputy director of the RAE, José Manuel Sánchez Ron.

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