Latin American Spanish

GPTKB entity

Statements (51)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf variety of Spanish
gptkbp:contrastsWith gptkb:Peninsular_Spanish
gptkbp:filmingLocation telenovelas
Latin American music
Latin American films
gptkbp:hasDialects gptkb:Caribbean_Spanish
gptkb:Central_American_Spanish
gptkb:Chilean_Spanish
gptkb:Mexican_Spanish
gptkb:Andean_Spanish
gptkb:Rioplatense_Spanish
gptkbp:hasFeature gptkb:yeísmo
gptkb:voseo
seseo
use of ustedes for plural you
no single standard, but Mexican Spanish is influential in media
gptkbp:hasGrammaticalDifference use of voseo in some regions
ustedes replaces vosotros
gptkbp:hasLexicalDifference unique words for foods, objects, and customs
use of indigenous loanwords
gptkbp:hasOrthographicDifference minimal compared to Peninsular Spanish
gptkbp:hasPhonologicalDifference absence of distinción
seseo universal
yeísmo widespread
aspiration or loss of final -s in Caribbean and coastal areas
gptkbp:hasPronunciationDifference j pronounced as [h] in Caribbean and coastal areas
ll and y pronounced the same in most regions
z and c before e/i pronounced as s
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Latin American Spanish
gptkbp:influencedBy English
African languages
indigenous languages
gptkbp:ISO639-3 gptkb:spa
gptkbp:languageFamily gptkb:Indo-European_languages
Romance languages
gptkbp:mainlyDerivedFrom gptkb:Castilian_Spanish
gptkbp:numberOfSpeakers over 400 million
gptkbp:spokenIn gptkb:Caribbean
gptkb:Central_America
gptkb:Mexico
gptkb:South_America
gptkbp:standardizedBy gptkb:Association_of_Spanish_Language_Academies
gptkbp:usedBy gptkb:Latin_American_diaspora_in_the_United_States
Spanish-speaking communities in Canada
Spanish-speaking communities in Equatorial Guinea
Spanish-speaking communities in the Philippines
gptkbp:usedInEducation gptkb:Latin_America
gptkbp:writingSystem gptkb:Latin_alphabet
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Colombian_Spanish
gptkb:Equatoguinean_Spanish
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5