Murcian Spanish

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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

Referenced by (2)

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

Andalusian Spanish closelyRelatedTo Murcian Spanish
Murcia regionalLanguage Murcian Spanish