Caribbean Spanish is the general name for the Spanish dialects spoken across the Caribbean region, introduced to the area following the 1492 voyages of Christopher Columbus. In its narrowest sense it covers Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, extending more broadly to Panama and the Caribbean coasts of Colombia and Venezuela, and in its widest sense to the Caribbean coastal areas of Mexico and Central America; it has more than 25 million speakers, making Spanish the most widely spoken language of the Caribbean islands. It shares features with Canarian Spanish and, more distantly, Andalusian Spanish, including seseo, yeismo and extensive weakening of syllable-final s, along with the consistent use of ustedes rather than vosotros and a tendency to retain subject pronouns that standard Spanish typically omits.
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RegionCaribbean Spanish is spoken on the Caribbean island nations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Antigua and Barbuda and Puerto Rico. 1 Speaker CommunityMore than 25 million people speak Spanish across the Caribbean Islands. 1 Distinguishing FeaturesCaribbean Spanish shows seseo, the merger of the sounds represented by s and z or soft c into a single s sound, as in most of the Americas. 1 Classification
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Source Wikipedia: Caribbean SpanishLead sentence 1tier 2Quote, Lead sentence 1
Caribbean Spanish (Spanish: español caribeño [espaˈɲol kaɾiˈβeɲo], locally [ehpaˈɲol kaɾiˈβeɲo]) is the general name of the Spanish dialects spoken in the Caribbean region.
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Seseo, where /θ/ and /s/ merge to /s/, as in the rest of the Americas, in the Canary Islands and in southern Spain.
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the Spanish language as it is spoken on the Caribbean island nations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Antigua and Barbuda and Puerto Rico
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With more than 25 million speakers, Spanish is the most widely spoken language in the Caribbean Islands.
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Caribbean Spanish (Spanish: español caribeño [espaˈɲol kaɾiˈβeɲo], locally [ehpaˈɲol kaɾiˈβeɲo]) is the general name of the Spanish dialects spoken in the Caribbean region.
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], locally [ehpaˈɲol kaɾiˈβeɲo]) is the general name of the Spanish dialects spoken in the Caribbean r
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