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Cuban Spanish
español cubano (Spanish)
Pronunciation[espaˈɲol kuˈβano]
Native speakers
11 million (2011)[1]
Language family
Indo-European
  • Italic
    • Latino-Faliscan
      • Romance
        • Western
          • Ibero-Romance
            • West Iberian
              • Castilian
                • Spanish
                  • North American Spanish
                    • Caribbean Spanish
                      • Cuban Spanish
Early forms
Old Latin
  • Classical Latin
    • Vulgar Latin
      • Old Spanish
        • Early Modern Spanish
Writing system
Latin (Spanish alphabet)
Official status
Official language in
Cuban Spanish Cuba
Regulated byAcademia Cubana de la Lengua
Language codes
ISO 639-3
GlottologNone
IETFes-CU
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Cuban Spanish is the variety of the Spanish language as it is spoken in Cuba. As a Caribbean variety of Spanish, Cuban Spanish shares a number of features with nearby varieties, including coda weakening and neutralization, non-inversion of Wh-questions, and a lower rate of dropping of subject pronouns compared to other Spanish varieties. As a variety spoken in Latin America, it has seseo and lacks the vosotros pronoun.

  1. ^ Spanish (Cuba) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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