Yucatec Spanish (inland varieties)

E926700

Yucatec Spanish (inland varieties) is a regional form of Spanish spoken in the interior of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, characterized by distinctive phonetic and lexical features influenced by Mayan languages and differing from coastal Gulf-area speech.

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Yucatec Spanish (inland varieties) canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
regional variety of Spanish
basedOn Mexican Spanish
belongsTo Mexican Spanish dialect continuum
contrastWith coastal Yucatec Spanish
country Mexico
differsFrom Gulf coastal Spanish of the Yucatán Peninsula
Yucatec Spanish (coastal Gulf-area varieties)
hasFeature Mayan loanwords
distinctive lexicon
distinctive phonetics
substrate influence from Mayan languages
hasGeographicDistribution rural areas of inland Yucatán Peninsula
small towns of interior Yucatán Peninsula
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Yucatec Maya NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Yucatec Maya NERFINISHED
hasSociolinguisticContext contact between Spanish and Mayan languages
hasType inland variety
influencedBy Mayan languages NERFINISHED
Yucatec Maya NERFINISHED
isSpokenBy bilingual speakers of Spanish and Mayan languages
inhabitants of inland Yucatán communities
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Romance languages
partOf Yucatec Spanish NERFINISHED
region Yucatán Peninsula interior
sharesMutualIntelligibilityWith Standard Spanish NERFINISHED
spokenIn Mexico
Yucatán Peninsula NERFINISHED
interior of the Yucatán Peninsula
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Gulf Spanish dialect zone distinguishedFrom Yucatec Spanish (inland varieties)