Camba Spanish

E149167

Camba Spanish is a regional variety of Spanish spoken primarily in Bolivia’s eastern lowlands, especially around Santa Cruz, characterized by distinctive pronunciation, vocabulary, and intonation.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Camba Spanish canonical 2
urban Camba Spanish 1

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Spanish dialect
regional variety of Spanish
associatedWithEthnonym Camba
belongsTo Bolivian Spanish
contrastWith Andean Spanish
surface form: Andean Bolivian Spanish

highland varieties of Bolivian Spanish
country Bolivia
geographicDistribution northern Bolivia
surface form: Bolivian lowlands

Santa Cruz region
hasAlternativeName cruceño Spanish
hasCenter Santa Cruz de la Sierra
hasCharacteristic distinctive intonation
distinctive pronunciation
distinctive vocabulary
hasLinguisticVariation rural Camba Spanish
Camba Spanish self-linksurface differs
surface form: urban Camba Spanish
hasPhonologicalFeature regional accent distinct from Andean Spanish
hasRegister colloquial speech
informal speech
hasSociolinguisticStatus marker of regional identity in eastern Bolivia
influencedBy local indigenous languages of eastern Bolivia
languageFamily Romance languages
region Gran Chaco and surrounding lowlands
spokenIn Bolivia
Santa Cruz Department
city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra
eastern lowlands of Bolivia
subfamilyOf Spanish
surface form: Spanish language
usedBy inhabitants of eastern Bolivia
people of Santa Cruz de la Sierra

Referenced by (3)

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

Bolivian Spanish hasRegionalVariant Camba Spanish
Santa Cruz de la Sierra localLanguage Camba Spanish
Camba Spanish hasLinguisticVariation Camba Spanish self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: urban Camba Spanish