<span>The statements that expresses the global influence of Spanish would be:
Spanish is the native tongue of almost all of North America.
Spanish is one of the official languages of the European Union and United Nations.
</span>Spanish, the official language in twenty-one countries, is the third most widely-spoken language in the world<span>, after English and Mandarin. More than 400 million people speak </span>Spanish worldwide<span>.</span>