Caribbean Spanish

Caribbean Spanish (Spanish: español caribeño) is the general name of the Spanish dialects spoken in the Caribbean region. It closely resembles the Spanish spoken in the Canary Islands and Andalusia. More precisely, the term refers to the Spanish language as spoken in the Caribbean islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, in Panama and Venezuela, and in the Caribbean mainland along the coast of Central America (Honduras, Nicaragua, Co... More

Caribbean Spanish (Spanish: español caribeño) is the general name of the Spanish dialects spoken in the Caribbean region. It closely resembles the Spanish spoken in the Canary Islands and Andalusia. More precisely, the term refers to the Spanish language as spoken in the Caribbean islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, in Panama and Venezuela, and in the Caribbean mainland along the coast of Central America (Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica). The Caribbean coast of Colombia is a Caribbean Spanish zone, as is much of the Pacific Coast extending down to Esmeraldas Province in Ecuador. Frequently, word-final /s/ and /d/ are dropped (as in compás [komˈpa] 'beat', mitad [miˈta] 'half'). Syllable-final /s/ (as well as /f/ in any context) may also be debuccalized to [h]. Similarly, syllable-final nasals and /ɾ/ in the infinitival morpheme may also be dropped (e.g. ven [bẽ] 'come', comer [koˈme] 'to eat'); the dropping of final nasals doesn't result in further neutralization...

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