Murcian Spanish
E65441
Murcian Spanish is a regional variety of the Spanish language spoken mainly in the Region of Murcia in southeastern Spain, characterized by phonetic and lexical features similar to those of neighboring Andalusian dialects.
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Romance lect
ⓘ
dialect ⓘ regional variety of Spanish ⓘ |
| country | Spain ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Campo de Cartagena
ⓘ
Huerta de Murcia ⓘ Murcia ⓘ
surface form:
Murcia city
Huerta de Murcia ⓘ
surface form:
Vega Alta del Segura
northwest of the Region of Murcia ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation |
Murcian folk music and traditions
ⓘ
Murcian regional identity ⓘ local literature and popular theatre ⓘ |
| hasDialectalVariation |
Cartagena variety
ⓘ
Vega Media and Vega Alta varieties ⓘ rural Murcian speech ⓘ urban Murcian speech ⓘ |
| hasLexicalFeature |
distinct everyday colloquial expressions
ⓘ
presence of Arabic loanwords ⓘ regional agricultural vocabulary ⓘ |
| hasMorphosyntacticFeature | use of diminutives with -ico/-ica endings in some areas ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringVariety |
Andalusian Spanish
ⓘ
Peninsular Spanish ⓘ
surface form:
Castilian Spanish
Valencian Spanish ⓘ |
| hasPhoneticFeature |
aspiration of syllable-final /s/
ⓘ
aspiration or loss of /x/ in some positions ⓘ reduction of unstressed vowels in fast speech ⓘ tendency to elide intervocalic /d/ in participles ⓘ weakening or loss of final consonants ⓘ yeísmo (merger of /ʎ/ and /ʝ/) ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticStatus |
non-standard variety of Spanish
ⓘ
primarily oral variety ⓘ |
| hasStatus |
considered a dialect by Spanish authorities
ⓘ
lacks official recognition as separate language ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Andalusian Spanish
ⓘ
Arabic ⓘ
surface form:
Arabic language
Aragonese language ⓘ Peninsular Spanish ⓘ
surface form:
Castilian Spanish
Catalan ⓘ
surface form:
Catalan language
|
| languageBranch | Western Romance ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Romance languages ⓘ |
| partOf |
Spanish
ⓘ
surface form:
Spanish language
|
| region |
Murcia
ⓘ
surface form:
Region of Murcia
|
| spokenIn |
Murcia
ⓘ
surface form:
Region of Murcia
southeastern Spain ⓘ |
| standardBasedOn |
Ortografía de la lengua española
ⓘ
surface form:
Castilian Spanish orthography
|
| subfamilyOf | Ibero-Romance languages ⓘ |
| usedBy |
inhabitants of the Region of Murcia
ⓘ
some speakers in neighboring areas of Alicante ⓘ some speakers in neighboring areas of Almería ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin script ⓘ |
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