Cuban Spanish

Cuban Spanish
Cuban Spanish
español cubano (Spanish)
Pronunciation	[espaˈɲol kuˈβano]
Ethnicity	Cubans
Native speakers	11 million (2011)
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	cuba1237
IETF	es-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.

Cuban Spanish
español cubano (Spanish)
Pronunciation	[espaˈɲol kuˈβano]
Ethnicity	Cubans
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	`cuba1237`
IETF	`es-CU`
This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA.