Andalusian Spanish

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Andalusian Spanish is a prominent regional variety of the Spanish language spoken mainly in Andalusia in southern Spain, known for distinctive phonetic features such as consonant weakening and seseo/ceceo.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Romance lect
dialect of Spanish
regional variety of Spanish
closelyRelatedTo Canarian Spanish
Murcian Spanish
country Spain
hasFeature lexical items specific to Andalusia
reduction of word-final vowels in some areas
use of ustedes with vosotros verb forms in some zones
hasPhoneticFeature aspiration of /x/
aspiration of syllable-final /s/
ceceo
consonant weakening
distinct intonation patterns compared to northern Peninsular Spanish
elision of final consonants
frequent elision of intervocalic /d/ in -ado endings
loss of syllable-final /s/
neutralization of /l/ and /r/ in coda position
reduction of consonant clusters
seseo
tendency to open vowels in contact with aspirated consonants
weakening of intervocalic consonants
weakening or loss of /d/ in participles and common words
yeísmo
hasSociolinguisticStatus non-standard variety of Spanish
hasVariant Eastern Andalusian Spanish
linked to: Andalusian Spanish

Western Andalusian Spanish
linked to: Andalusian Spanish
influenced Canarian Spanish
Caribbean Spanish
Latin American Spanish varieties
Rioplatense Spanish
ISO639-3 none (covered under standard Spanish code 'spa')
languageFamily Ibero-Romance languages
Indo-European languages
Romance languages
Western Romance languages
partOf Spanish language
linked to: Spanish
region Almería
Cádiz
linked to: Cadiz

Córdoba
Granada
Huelva
Jaén
Málaga
Seville
linked to: Seville, Spain
spokenIn Andalusia
southern Spain
linked to: Andalusia
usedIn everyday informal communication in Andalusia
writingSystem Latin alphabet

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Spanish hasMajorDialect Andalusian Spanish
Puerto Rican Spanish hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Andalusian Spanish
Andalusian Spanish hasVariant Western Andalusian Spanish
linked to: Andalusian Spanish
Andalusian Spanish hasVariant Eastern Andalusian Spanish
linked to: Andalusian Spanish
Caribbean Spanish influencedBy Andalusian Spanish
Canarian Spanish influencedBy Andalusian Spanish
Canarian Spanish sharesFeaturesWith Andalusian Spanish
Canarian Spanish closelyRelatedTo Andalusian Spanish
Llanito hasLanguageFamilyComponent Andalusian Spanish
Llanito primaryLexifier Andalusian Spanish
Llanito typicalFeature Andalusian Spanish phonology
linked to: Andalusian Spanish
Rioplatense Spanish hasInfluenceFrom Andalusian Spanish
Murcian Spanish hasNeighboringVariety Andalusian Spanish
Murcian Spanish influencedBy Andalusian Spanish
Chavacano hasInfluenceFrom Andalusian Spanish
Peninsular Spanish hasRegionalVariant Andalusian Spanish
Province of Málaga language Andalusian Spanish
Province of Almería language Andalusian Spanish
Andalusian Arabic influenced Andalusian Spanish
Yanito hasMajorComponentLanguage Andalusian Spanish
Yanito closelyRelatedTo Andalusian Spanish
Yanito hasPhonologySimilarTo Andalusian Spanish
New Mexican Spanish hasInfluenceFrom Andalusian Spanish
Cuban Spanish hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Andalusian Spanish
Modern Spanish hasStandardForm Andalusian Spanish
Southern Spain hasDialect Andalusian Spanish
subject linked to: southern Spain
Valencian Spanish differsFrom Andalusian Spanish
Villacarrillo hasRegionalLanguage Andalusian Spanish