Puerto Rican Spanish

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Puerto Rican Spanish is the variety of Spanish spoken in Puerto Rico, characterized by Caribbean phonetics, distinctive vocabulary, and influences from Taíno, African, and U.S. English languages.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Caribbean Spanish dialect
variety of the Spanish language
hasAlternativeName español de Puerto Rico
español puertorriqueño
hasCulturalAssociation Puerto Rican identity
Puerto Rican music genres such as salsa
bomba and plena traditions
reggaetón lyrics
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom African languages
Andalusian Spanish
Canarian Spanish
Taíno languages
U.S. English
hasNotableWord boricua
bregar (to deal with, manage)
carro (for car, preferred over coche)
chavos (money)
china (for orange)
china (sweet orange, from Taíno)
china de jugo (orange juice orange)
corillo (group of friends)
guagua (for bus)
guineo (banana)
habichuelas (beans)
janguear (from English hang out)
jíbaro
maní (peanut)
nena (for girl, child)
nene (for boy, child)
pichear (to ignore, from pitch)
zafacón (trash can)
hasPhoneticFeature aspiration of syllable-final /s/
assibilation or weakening of /r/ in some positions
lateralization of /r/ to /l/ in some speakers
reduction of unstressed vowels in rapid speech
velarization of word-final /n/
weakening or elision of syllable-final /s/
yeísmo
hasRegionalVariation rural speech varieties
urban speech varieties
hasSociolinguisticFeature code-switching with English among bilingual speakers
use of Spanglish in informal contexts
variation between island and diaspora communities
languageFamily Romance languages
partOf Spanish language
regulatedBy Real Academia Española (de facto, via general Spanish norms)
spokenIn Puerto Rico
standardBasedOn general Latin American Spanish orthographic norms
usedBy Puerto Rican diaspora in the United States
majority of Puerto Rico population
writingSystem Latin alphabet

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