Spanish language in science and technology

Mate gourds, on top of a scientific article in English.

The Spanish language is used in diverse areas of science and technology. However, despite its large number of speakers, the Spanish language does not feature prominently in scientific writing, with the exception of the humanities.[A][2] One estimate puts the percentage of Spanish language publications in natural sciences and technology as 0.5% of the world total,[B] a low number since Spanish is often considered to rank second or third among languages in various other metrics and estimates.[4] In the humanities a similar estimate yields 2.81%.[4]

Summarizing the status of the Spanish language in the sciences, researcher Álvaro Cabezas writes: "No serious scientist publishes his best works in a language other than English".[5]

The creation of new terminology in Spanish is due more to the translation of concepts from other languages than to the crafting of original ideas.[6]

  1. ^ van Weijen, Daphne (2012). "The Language of (Future) Scientific Communication". Research Trends (31).
  2. ^ "El español se atasca como lengua científica". Servicio de Información y Noticias Científicas (in Spanish). March 5, 2014. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
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  4. ^ a b Prado, Daniel (2007). "¿Está preparado el español para la comunicación especializada?". In Sequera, Reyes (ed.). Ciencia, tecnología y lengua española: la terminología científica en español (in Spanish). Madrid: Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología. pp. 24–42.
  5. ^ Cabezas Clavijo, Álvaro (2010). "El español como idioma científico: Salto al vacío o salto a la red" (PDF). Apuntes de Ciencia y Tecnología (in Spanish). 34: 11–13. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
  6. ^ Irazazábal, Amelia (2007). "¿Podremos coordinar, al fin, la terminología científica en lengua española?". In Sequera, Reyes (ed.). Ciencia, tecnología y lengua española: la terminología científica en español (in Spanish). Madrid: Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología. pp. 43–50.


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