Latin American Spanish

Latin American Spanish

Latin American Spanish refers to the Spanish spoken in the Americas as opposed to Peninsular Spanish (Spanish spoken in the Iberian Peninsula).

Local variations

In South America

*Bolivian Spanish
*Chilean Spanish
*Colombian Spanish
*Ecuadorian Spanish
*Paraguayan Spanish
*Peruvian Coast Spanish
*Rioplatense Spanish (Argentina/Uruguay)
*Venezuelan Spanish

In Central America

*Costa Rican Spanish
*Guatemalan Spanish
*Honduran Spanish
*Nicaraguan Spanish
*Panamanian Spanish
*Salvadoran Spanish

In North America

*Mexican Spanish
*Spanish in the United States

In the Caribbean

*Cuban Spanish
*Dominican Spanish
*Puerto Rican Spanish

Additional Material

*http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/m/jml34/city.pdf = Lipski, J. "The role of the city in the formation of Spanish American dialect zones"

External links

* [http://www.asihablamos.com/ Latin American Dictionary with Latin American Spanish variants for every country]


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