Guatemala El Salvador Honduras Nicaragua Costa Rica Belize Chiapas (Mexico)
Native speakers
Native: 39 million (2018)[1] L2: 4 million (2018)[1]
Language family
Indo-European
Italic
Latino-Faliscan
Romance
Western
Ibero-Romance
West Iberian
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Spanish
Central American Spanish
Early forms
Old Latin
Classical Latin
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Old Spanish
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Dialects
Guatemalan Honduran Salvadoran Nicaraguan Costa Rican
Writing system
Latin (Spanish alphabet)
Official status
Official language in
Guatemala El Salvador Honduras Nicaragua Costa Rica
Regulated by
Academia Guatemalteca de la Lengua Academia Hondureña de la Lengua Academia Salvadoreña de la Lengua Academia Nicaragüense de la Lengua Academia Costarricense de la Lengua
Language codes
ISO 639-1
es
ISO 639-2
spa[2]
ISO 639-3
–
Glottolog
None
IETF
es-GT es-BZ es-HN es-SV es-NI es-CR
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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. Panamanian Spanish is considered a variety of Caribbean Spanish, it is transitional between Central American and Caribbean dialects.
^ abSpanish at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018) , Combining with Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica
^"ISO 639-2 Language Code search". Library of Congress. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
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