For the dialect of Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans, see Cubonics.
Cuban Spanish
español cubano(Spanish)
Pronunciation
[espaˈɲolkuˈβano]
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
Cuba
Regulated by
Academia Cubana de la Lengua
Language codes
ISO 639-3
–
Glottolog
None
IETF
es-CU
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A manuscript of the Cantar de mio Cid, 13th century
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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.
^Spanish (Cuba) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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