Spanish 🇪🇸 was the first European language to be spoken in the Americas. ✅ Here’s the context, briefly and clearly: • 1492: Christopher Columbus arrived in the Caribbean speaking Spanish 🇪🇸, marking the first sustained European language contact in the Americas. • Spanish 🇪🇸 settlers, missionaries, and administrators rapidly spread the language throughout the Caribbean, Mesoamerica, and South America. • Other European languages came later: • Portuguese 🇵🇹 (Brazil after 1500) • English 🇬�