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| Dominican Spanish | |
|---|---|
| Español dominicano | |
| Pronunciation | [espaˈɲol dominiˈkano] |
| Native to | Dominican Republic |
| Ethnicity | Dominicans |
Native speakers | 13 million (Including Dominican diaspora in other countries and immigrants living in Dominican Republic) (2014)[1] 9 million (only including Dominicans in DR) |
Early forms | |
| Spanish alphabet (Latin script) | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Dominican Republic |
| Regulated by | Academia Dominicana de la Lengua |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | es |
| ISO 639-2 | spa[2] |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
| IETF | es-DO |
Dominican Spanish (español dominicano) is Spanish as spoken in the Dominican Republic; and also among the Dominican diaspora, most of whom live in the United States, chiefly in New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Florida.
Dominican Spanish, a Caribbean variety of Spanish, is based on the Andalusian and Canarian Spanish dialects of southern Spain, and has influences from African languages, Native Taíno and other Arawakan languages. Speakers of Dominican Spanish may also use conservative words that are similar to older variants of Spanish. The variety spoken in the Cibao region is influenced by the 16th and 17th-century Spanish and Portuguese colonists in the Cibao valley, and shows a greater than average influence by the 18th-century Canarian settlers.[3][4]
There is also a significant influence from African languages in the Spanish spoken by Haitian and Afro-Caribbean migrant descendants in the Dominican Republic, particularly in grammar and phonetics.[5] However, second generation immigrants from Haiti use to speak very close to the Dominican standard speech, if not actually speaking it, assimilating into the mainstream speech.
- ^ Spanish → Dominican Republic at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "ISO 639-2 Language Code search". Library of Congress. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
- ^ Henríquez Ureña (1940)
- ^ Del Caribe, Números 28-33 (in Spanish). Casa del Caribe. 1998. p. 84.
- ^ John Lipski (May 1994). "A New Perspective on Afro-Dominican Spanish: the Haitian Contribution". Research Papers. digitalrepository.unm.edu.