Chocoano Spanish
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Chocoano Spanish is a regional variety of Colombian Spanish spoken primarily in Colombia’s Chocó department, characterized by distinctive phonetic and lexical features influenced by the area’s strong Afro-Colombian cultural heritage.
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dialect of Colombian Spanish
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regional variety of Spanish → |
| associatedWith |
Afro-Colombian communities
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| country |
Colombia
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| culturalContext |
Afro-descendant communities of Chocó
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| geographicContext |
Colombian Pacific coast
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| hasFeature |
distinctive lexicon
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distinctive phonetics → |
| hasInfluenceFrom |
African languages
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Afro-Colombian culture → Standard Colombian Spanish → |
| hasLexicalFeature |
regional vocabulary specific to Chocó
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| hasPhonologicalFeature |
prosodic patterns distinct from inland Colombian varieties
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variation in consonant realization compared to standard Spanish → |
| hasSociolinguisticStatus |
marker of regional identity
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non-standard variety → |
| isSubjectOf |
sociolinguistic studies of Colombian Spanish variation
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| languageBranch |
Romance languages
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| languageFamily |
Indo-European languages
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| partOf |
Colombian Spanish
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| regionType |
coastal variety
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| spokenBy |
Spanish speakers in Chocó Department
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| spokenIn |
Chocó Department
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Pacific region of Colombia → |
| subfamily |
Ibero-Romance languages
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| usedBy |
inhabitants of Chocó Department
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|
| usedIn |
everyday communication
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oral tradition → |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
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Referenced by (1)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Colombian Spanish
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hasRegionalVariety |