Andalusian Spanish

E10626

Romance lect dialect of Spanish regional variety of Spanish

Andalusian Spanish is a prominent regional variety of the Spanish language spoken mainly in Andalusia in southern Spain, known for distinctive phonetic features such as consonant weakening and seseo/ceceo.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form	Occurrences
Andalusian Spanish phonology	1
Eastern Andalusian Spanish	1
Western Andalusian Spanish	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Romance lect ⓘ dialect of Spanish ⓘ regional variety of Spanish ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Canarian Spanish ⓘ Murcian Spanish ⓘ
country	Spain ⓘ
hasFeature	lexical items specific to Andalusia ⓘ reduction of word-final vowels in some areas ⓘ use of ustedes with vosotros verb forms in some zones ⓘ
hasPhoneticFeature	aspiration of /x/ ⓘ aspiration of syllable-final /s/ ⓘ ceceo ⓘ consonant weakening ⓘ distinct intonation patterns compared to northern Peninsular Spanish ⓘ elision of final consonants ⓘ frequent elision of intervocalic /d/ in -ado endings ⓘ loss of syllable-final /s/ ⓘ neutralization of /l/ and /r/ in coda position ⓘ reduction of consonant clusters ⓘ seseo ⓘ tendency to open vowels in contact with aspirated consonants ⓘ weakening of intervocalic consonants ⓘ weakening or loss of /d/ in participles and common words ⓘ yeísmo ⓘ
hasSociolinguisticStatus	non-standard variety of Spanish ⓘ
hasVariant	Andalusian Spanish self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Eastern Andalusian Spanish Andalusian Spanish self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Western Andalusian Spanish
influenced	Canarian Spanish ⓘ Caribbean Spanish ⓘ Latin American Spanish ⓘ surface form: Latin American Spanish varieties Rioplatense Spanish ⓘ
ISO639-3	none (covered under standard Spanish code 'spa') ⓘ
languageFamily	Ibero-Romance languages ⓘ Indo-European language family ⓘ surface form: Indo-European languages Romance languages ⓘ Ibero-Romance languages ⓘ surface form: Western Romance languages
partOf	Spanish ⓘ surface form: Spanish language
region	Almería ⓘ Cadiz ⓘ surface form: Cádiz Cordoba (historical) ⓘ surface form: Córdoba Granada ⓘ Huelva ⓘ Jaén ⓘ Málaga ⓘ Seville, Spain ⓘ surface form: Seville
spokenIn	Andalusia ⓘ Andalusia ⓘ surface form: southern Spain
usedIn	everyday informal communication in Andalusia ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ

Referenced by (14)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Canarian Spanish → closelyRelatedTo → Andalusian Spanish ⓘ

Rioplatense Spanish → hasInfluenceFrom → Andalusian Spanish ⓘ

Llanito → hasLanguageFamilyComponent → Andalusian Spanish ⓘ

Puerto Rican Spanish → hasLexicalInfluenceFrom → Andalusian Spanish ⓘ

Spanish → hasMajorDialect → Andalusian Spanish ⓘ

Murcian Spanish → hasNeighboringVariety → Andalusian Spanish ⓘ

Andalusian Spanish → hasVariant → Andalusian Spanish self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Western Andalusian Spanish

Andalusian Spanish → hasVariant → Andalusian Spanish self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Eastern Andalusian Spanish

Canarian Spanish → influencedBy → Andalusian Spanish ⓘ

Caribbean Spanish → influencedBy → Andalusian Spanish ⓘ

Murcian Spanish → influencedBy → Andalusian Spanish ⓘ

Llanito → primaryLexifier → Andalusian Spanish ⓘ

Canarian Spanish → sharesFeaturesWith → Andalusian Spanish ⓘ

Llanito → typicalFeature → Andalusian Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Andalusian Spanish phonology