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Central American Spanish
Español centroamericano
Pronunciation[espaˈɲol sentɾoameɾiˈkano]
Native toGuatemala
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
              • Castilian
                • Spanish
                  • Central American Spanish
Early forms
Old Latin
  • Classical Latin
    • Vulgar Latin
      • Old Spanish
        • Early Modern Spanish
DialectsGuatemalan
Honduran
Salvadoran
Nicaraguan
Costa Rican
Writing system
Latin (Spanish alphabet)
Official status
Official language in
Central American Spanish Guatemala
Central American Spanish El Salvador
Central American Spanish Honduras
Central American Spanish Nicaragua
Central American Spanish Costa Rica
Regulated byAcademia 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 639-1es
ISO 639-2spa[2]
ISO 639-3
GlottologNone
IETFes-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.

  1. ^ a b Spanish at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018) Closed access icon, Combining with Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica
  2. ^ "ISO 639-2 Language Code search". Library of Congress. Retrieved 7 July 2019.

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