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Central American Spanish (Spanish: español centroamericano or castellano centroamericano) is the general name of the Spanish language dialects spoken in Central America. More precisely, the term refers to the Spanish language as spoken in Costa Rica , El Salvador , Guatemala , Honduras , and Nicaragua .
Though not official, Spanish has a special status in the American state of New Mexico. [37] With almost 60 million native speakers and second language speakers, the United States now has the second-largest Spanish-speaking population in the world after Mexico. [38] Spanish is increasingly used alongside English nationwide in business and politics.
A notable exception is the Department of Nariño and most Costeño speech (Atlantic coastal dialects) which feature the soft, fricative realizations common to all other Hispanic American and European dialects. Word-final /n/ is velar in much Latin American Spanish speech; this means a word like pan (bread) is often articulated ['paŋ].
In the Americas, velar -n is prevalent in all Caribbean dialects, Central American dialects, the coastal areas of Colombia, Venezuela, much of Ecuador, Peru, and northern Chile. [18] This velar -n likely originated in the northwest of Spain, and from there spread to Andalusia and then the Americas. [21]
This is a ranking of languages by number of sovereign countries in which they are de jure or de facto official, although there are no precise inclusion criteria or definition of a language. An '*' (asterisk) indicates a country whose independence is disputed. Partially recognized or de facto independent countries are denoted by an asterisk (*)
Pages in category "Spanish-speaking countries and territories" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Among those aged 18-49 who said they could carry on a conversation in Spanish “a little” or “not at all,” 57% report being shamed by other Latinos for not speaking Spanish well, the study ...
This category and its subcategories contain articles relating to the various languages of Central America, which by a common geopolitical definition includes the territory encompassed by the countries of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. language portal