Because most Spanish-speaking countries are predominately Roman Catholic, and the Roman Catholic church teaches that the Sabbath is Sunday. But The Bible says the Sabbath is the seventh day. So in order to make Sunday the seventh day they start the calendars with Monday.
So, why is Saturday in Spanish a cognate for Sabath? It is called Sabado.
Yes, it does.
In Spanish-speaking countries, the calendar begins on Monday. This means that the week starts on Monday and ends on Sunday.
I can answer you the same thing: why does your calendar start with Sunday? You start your week on Monday, right? You go to your job on Monday, not Sunday. So it doesn't make any sense that your week calendar starts on Sunday.
on the 5/01
I don't know... Maybe because Monday is the first day to the working week so the calendar begin by Monday.... Why is Saturday the last day in the English calendar?.. I have no idea about that...
Monday (lunes) precedes Tuesday (martes) in the Spanish calendar.
"Calendar" in Spanish is "calendario."
Calendar, in Spanish, is "calendario".
If you're referring to the calendar year 2010, the 18th week of the year will begin on Monday, May 3, 2010.
The US standard of Sunday as the first day of the week is not observed in much of Europe, with Monday (lunes) often the first day of the calendar week. This is also the ISO standard 8601.
"Monday" in Spanish is "el lunes", and is not capitalized.
Monday on the Gregorian calendar; Thursday on the Julian calendar