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Linguistic evolution in the Iberian Peninsula
The Arabic influence on the Spanish language has been significant, especially at the lexical level, due to the prolonged Arabic presence in the Iberian Peninsula between 711 and 1609 (date of the expulsion of the Moriscos) and that is, while 73% Spanish vocabulary is attributed to Latin, the remaining 27% is shared among other languages. [citation needed] In particular, Rafael Lapesa says that more than 4000 words of the Spanish lexicon, including place names, come from Arabic.
The Arabic influence was more evident in the south and east of the territory controlled by the Arabs, called al-Ándalus. The Arab-Muslim conquest of the peninsula began with the establishment of the Emirate of Cordoba, followed by the Caliphate of Cordoba and later the various kingdoms of Taifa. Arabic was the dominant language in these territories and, at the same time, it was a neighboring language for the northern Christian kingdoms.
The result in the current Spanish are many place-names, nouns and proper names, verbs but very few (seven, little used at present), counted adjectives and adverbs and a single preposition: "hasta"; which may reflect that the influence -being broad and very important- did not