Canarian Spanish

E13376

Canarian Spanish is a regional variety of Spanish spoken in the Canary Islands, characterized by features influenced by Andalusian Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American dialects.


Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Ibero-Romance lect
dialect of Spanish
regional variety of Spanish
closelyRelatedTo Andalusian Spanish
Caribbean Spanish
surface form: Caribbean Spanish varieties
contrastsWith Spanish
surface form: Castilian Spanish
countryOfOrigin Spain
hasFeature frequent elision of final consonants in rapid speech
reduction of consonant clusters in coda position
use of diminutives and affective suffixes similar to Latin American Spanish
hasLexicalFeature lexical similarities with Caribbean Spanish
loanwords from English via contact with British communities
loanwords from Portuguese
presence of many Guanche substrate words
hasMorphologicalFeature reduced use of vosotros verb forms
use of ustedes instead of vosotros for the second person plural
hasPhonologicalFeature aspiration or loss of syllable-final /s/
seseo
tendency to pronounce word-final /r/ softly or elide it
velar or aspirated realization of /x/
weakening of intervocalic /d/
yeísmo
hasProsodicFeature distinctive intonation patterns compared to Castilian Spanish
hasRegister colloquial speech
informal speech
hasSociolinguisticStatus non-standard regional variety of Spanish
prestigious within the Canary Islands in informal contexts
historicallyLinkedTo emigration from the Canary Islands to Cuba
emigration from the Canary Islands to Venezuela
emigration from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean
influencedBy Andalusian Spanish
Caribbean Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
ISO639-3Status not assigned a separate ISO 639-3 code
languageFamily Romance languages
orthography standard Spanish orthography
regionOfOrigin Canary Islands
surface form: Atlantic archipelago of the Canary Islands
sharesFeaturesWith Andalusian Spanish
Caribbean Spanish
Latin American Spanish
spokenIn Canary Islands
Spain
subfamily Ibero-Romance languages
usedBy Canarian diaspora communities in Latin America
inhabitants of the Canary Islands

Referenced by (6)

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

Andalusian Spanish closelyRelatedTo Canarian Spanish
Spanish hasMajorDialect Canarian Spanish
Canary Islands hasRegionalLanguage Canarian Spanish
Andalusian Spanish influenced Canarian Spanish
Caribbean Spanish influencedBy Canarian Spanish