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Spain wants the upcoming International Congress of the Spanish language, to be held in Chile in 2010, promotes "the presence of Spanish on the Internet," still inadequate, despite the current economic crisis and recovery taking advantage of this language the world.

"We must make an effort to encourage the presence of Spanish on the Internet, which, although growing, still does not match the force that holds in other areas," the president encouraged the Spanish Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, in the presentation V Congress in Madrid, to be held in Valparaiso, from 2 to 5 March 2010.


"Despite the economic difficulties that we went through, there is a growing interest in the possibilities of the Spanish" shown by the proliferation of studies on the economic value of our language and its importance as a source of wealth, "he said.

Thus encouraged to take advantage in such areas as education, knowledge society, research, development and innovation.


"It will give a qualitative leap in promoting the use of information technology (...) to enrich the wealth of our language," also affected the director of the Instituto Cervantes, Carmen Caffarel.

This would explore "ways in the field of new digital media" and enhance "the Hispanic publishing industry, for its part said the director of the Royal Spanish Language Academy, Victor Garcia de la Concha.


In times of economic crisis, Zapatero called on the publishing companies that do not leave "one of the strongest cultural industries."

Spanish is the third most spoken language in the world, with more than 500 million people, behind the Chinese and English, with a growth rate of 10% annually.


It is the official language in over 20 countries and the second in the U.S., where the middle of this century, 130 million people speak.

'America in the Spanish language,' title of the congress, which will examine the influence of American language in Spanish, "reverses the usual perspective of the 'Spanish America'," according to De la Concha.


America is "call to expand the mapping of our language" and "will be the laboratory and the Spanish driver of the future," said Zapatero.

The Congress, which coincides with the bicentennial of the independence of Chile, Argentina, Colombia and Mexico, will be presented the "New Grammar of the Spanish language, 'new' Spelling 'panhispánica and' Dictionary of Americanisms academic.


This latest book is "an old dream" that the association of 22 academies of Spanish is becoming a reality, "said De la Concha, and collected nearly 100,000 entries in the Spanish American.

Latin American poetry and their representatives, Chilean Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, Vicente Huidobro, Nicanor Parra and Gonzalo Rojas-occupy a central place in the conference, which will reach its fifth edition after its inception in 1997 in Zacatecas (Mexico), and the last one, held in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia in 2007).


Neruda and Mistral protagonizarán two commemorative editions including "unpublished materials," said the Chilean minister Paulina Urrutia.