Cuban Spanish | |
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español cubano (Spanish) | |
Pronunciation | [espaˈɲol kuˈβano] |
Ethnicity | Cubans |
Native speakers | 11 million (2011)[1] |
Early forms | |
Latin (Spanish alphabet) | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Cuba |
Regulated by | Academia Cubana de la Lengua |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | cuba1237 |
IETF | es-CU |
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.