In Spanish-speaking countries it would have to have an accent — Fernández — otherwise the last syllable would have to be stressed. Finally, not all people in Latin America have Hispanic names.

Similar information rates across languages, despite divergent speech rates Date: September 5, 2019 Source: CNRS Summary: Spanish may seem to be spoken at a higher speed than Vietnamese, but that ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Spanish Is Faster Than English, But Mandarin Is Slow ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 306 No. 4 (April 2012) doi:10.1038 ...

Interestingly, the languages that conveyed the least amount of information per syllable, like Spanish, Japanese, and French, tended to be spoken at a faster rate. This allowed these languages (apart ...