Variety (or varieties) of Spanish spoken in the Dominican Republic
Dominican Spanish
Español dominicano
Pronunciation
[espaˈɲoldominiˈkano]
Native to
Dominican Republic
Native speakers
13 million (Including Dominican diaspora in other countries and immigrants living in Dominican Republic) (2014)[1] 9 million (only including Dominicans in DR)
Language family
Indo-European
Italic
Romance
Western
Ibero-Romance
West Iberian
Castilian
Spanish
South American Spanish
Caribbean Spanish
Dominican Spanish
Early forms
Proto-Indo-European
Old Latin
Vulgar Latin
Proto-Romance
Old Spanish
Early Modern Spanish
Writing system
Spanish alphabet (Latin script)
Official status
Official language in
Dominican Republic
Regulated by
Academia Dominicana de la Lengua
Language codes
ISO 639-1
es
ISO 639-2
spa[2]
ISO 639-3
–
Glottolog
None
IETF
es-DO
Spanish language
A manuscript of the Cantar de mio Cid, 13th century
Overview
Pronunciation
stress
Orthography
Names
History
Old
Middle
Influences
Grammar
Determiners
Nouns
gender
Pronouns
personal
object
Adjectives
Prepositions
Verbs
conjugation
irregular verbs
Dialects
Andalusian
Andean
Argentine
Belizean
Bolivian
Canarian
Caribbean
Central American
Chilean
Colombian
Costa Rican
Cuban
Dominican
Ecuadorian
Equatoguinean
Guatemalan
Honduran
Mexican
Murcian
New Mexican
Nicaraguan
Paraguay
Panamanian
Peninsular
Peruvian
Philippine
status
Puerto Rican
Rioplatense
Saharan
Salvadoran
Standard
Uruguayan
Venezuelan
Dialectology
Seseo
Yeísmo
Voseo
Leísmo
Loísmo
Interlanguages
Llanito
Jopara
Judaeo-Spanish
Portuñol
Spanglish
Castrapo
Creoles
Roquetas Pidgin
Chavacano or Chabacano
Palenquero or Palenque
Teaching
Hispanism
RAE
Instituto Cervantes
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Dominican Spanish (español dominicano) is Spanish as spoken in the Dominican Republic; and also among the Dominican diaspora, most of whom live in the United States, chiefly in New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Florida.
Dominican Spanish, a Caribbean variety of Spanish, is based on the Andalusian and Canarian Spanish dialects of southern Spain, and has influences from Native Taíno and other Arawakan languages. Speakers of Dominican Spanish may also use conservative words that are similar to older variants of Spanish. The variety spoken in the Cibao region is influenced by the 16th and 17th-century Spanish and Portuguese colonists in the Cibao valley, and shows a greater than average influence by the 18th-century Canarian settlers.[3][4]
Despite the large share of African ancestry among Dominicans (see Afro-Dominicans), the African element in the local Spanish is not as important as one might expect.[5]
There is also a significant influence from African languages in the Spanish spoken by Haitian and Afro-Caribbean migrant descendants in the Dominican Republic, particularly in grammar and phonetics.[6] However, second generation immigrants from Haiti use to speak very close to the Dominican standard speech, if not actually speaking it, assimilating into the mainstream speech.
^"ISO 639-2 Language Code search". Library of Congress. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
^Henríquez Ureña (1940)
^Del Caribe, Números 28-33 (in Spanish). Casa del Caribe. 1998. p. 84.
^ Lipski, John M. (1994). Latin American Spanish. Longman. p. 237: Unlike what happened in Cuba and to a lesser extent in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic did not see an upsurge in the importation of African slaves around the turn of the nineteenth century. The cultural and linguistic roots of most Afro-Dominicans go much further back, and these groups have spoken Spanish for so long that only a few lexical Africanisms are found.
^John Lipski (May 1994). "A New Perspective on Afro-Dominican Spanish: the Haitian Contribution". Research Papers. digitalrepository.unm.edu.
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