A Romance language descended from Latin, formed on the Iberian Peninsula and now an official language of Spain and most countries of Latin America.
Most punctuation evolved organically, but Spanish's inverted ¿ and ¡ did not. In 1754, the Royal Spanish Academy made them an official rule so readers could identify a question before reaching the end of a long sentence.
Many Europeansurnames originated from 'son of [father's name].' English -son (Johnson, Jackson), Celtic Mc/Mac (McDonald, MacArthur) and O' (O'Brien), Spanish -ez (Rodríguez, González), and Slavic -vić (Ibrahimović, Đoković) all trace back to a father's name that became hereditary.