Caribbean Spanish

E11288

dialect group regional variety of Spanish

Caribbean Spanish is a major regional variety of the Spanish language spoken in Caribbean countries and coastal areas, characterized by distinctive pronunciation, rhythm, and vocabulary.

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All labels observed (8)

Label	Occurrences
Caribbean Spanish canonical	14
Cuban Spanish	2
Dominican Spanish	2
Caribbean Spanish dialects	1
Caribbean Spanish varieties	1
Coastal Venezuelan Spanish	1
Costeño Spanish	1
Spanish of the Caribbean	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	dialect group ⓘ regional variety of Spanish ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Caribbean Spanish ⓘ surface form: Spanish of the Caribbean español caribeño ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	aspiration or deletion of syllable-final /s/ ⓘ distinctive intonation patterns ⓘ fast speech rhythm ⓘ frequent use of diminutives and augmentatives ⓘ frequent use of loanwords from English in some areas ⓘ reduction of unstressed vowels in rapid speech ⓘ strong influence from African languages in lexicon and prosody ⓘ use of specific Caribbean lexical items ⓘ use of subject pronoun omission similar to other Spanish varieties ⓘ use of ustedes instead of vosotros for second person plural ⓘ weakening of word-final consonants ⓘ yeísmo ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	aspiration of /s/ to [h] in coda position ⓘ elision of /d/ in intervocalic position in some words ⓘ neutralization of /l/ and /r/ in syllable-final position in some areas ⓘ weakening or loss of final /r/ in infinitives ⓘ
hasSociolinguisticAspect	code-switching with English in some communities ⓘ variation by social class ⓘ variation by urban versus rural setting ⓘ
hasSubvariety	Caribbean Colombian Spanish ⓘ Caribbean Spanish self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Coastal Venezuelan Spanish Caribbean Spanish self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Cuban Spanish Caribbean Spanish self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Dominican Spanish Puerto Rican Spanish ⓘ
influencedBy	Andalusian Spanish ⓘ Canarian Spanish ⓘ Indigenous Caribbean languages ⓘ West African languages ⓘ
languageFamily	Indo-European languages ⓘ Romance languages ⓘ
partOf	Spanish ⓘ surface form: Spanish language
region	Caribbean ⓘ
spokenIn	Caribbean coastal areas of Central America ⓘ Caribbean islands ⓘ Colombian Caribbean region ⓘ surface form: Colombia (Caribbean coast) Cuba ⓘ Dominican Republic ⓘ Panama ⓘ surface form: Panama (Caribbean regions) Puerto Rico ⓘ Venezuela ⓘ surface form: Venezuela (coastal regions)
usedBy	Spanish speakers in the Caribbean region ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ

Referenced by (23)

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

Spanish → hasMajorDialect → Caribbean Spanish ⓘ

Andalusian Spanish → influenced → Caribbean Spanish ⓘ

Colombian Spanish → hasRegionalVariety → Caribbean Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Costeño Spanish

Colombian Spanish → influencedBy → Caribbean Spanish ⓘ

Caribbean Spanish → hasSubvariety → Caribbean Spanish self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cuban Spanish

Caribbean Spanish → hasSubvariety → Caribbean Spanish self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dominican Spanish

Caribbean Spanish → hasSubvariety → Caribbean Spanish self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Coastal Venezuelan Spanish

Caribbean Spanish → hasAlternativeName → Caribbean Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish of the Caribbean

Canarian Spanish → influencedBy → Caribbean Spanish ⓘ

Canarian Spanish → sharesFeaturesWith → Caribbean Spanish ⓘ

Canarian Spanish → closelyRelatedTo → Caribbean Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Caribbean Spanish varieties

Latin American Spanish → hasRegionalVariety → Caribbean Spanish ⓘ

Veracruz Spanish → influencedBy → Caribbean Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cuban Spanish

Veracruz Spanish → influencedBy → Caribbean Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Dominican Spanish

Colombian Caribbean region → hasRegionalDialect → Caribbean Spanish ⓘ

Rioplatense Spanish → contrastsWith → Caribbean Spanish ⓘ

Negrismo → hasLanguageContext → Caribbean Spanish ⓘ

Peninsular Spanish → contrastsWith → Caribbean Spanish ⓘ

Hispanic linguistics → studies → Caribbean Spanish ⓘ

Gulf Spanish dialect zone → sharesFeaturesWith → Caribbean Spanish ⓘ

this entity surface form: Caribbean Spanish dialects

Cuban Spanish → partOf → Caribbean Spanish ⓘ

Modern Spanish → hasStandardForm → Caribbean Spanish ⓘ