 | This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)
|
| Puerto Rican Spanish | |
|---|---|
| Español puertorriqueño | |
| Pronunciation | [ehpaˈɲol pweltoχiˈkeɲo] |
Native speakers | 6 million (Puerto Rico & many stateside Puerto Ricans in U.S. mainland) (2011)[1] |
Early forms | |
| Latin (Spanish alphabet) | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Puerto Rico |
| Regulated by | Academia Puertorriqueña de la Lengua Española |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | puer1238 |
| IETF | es-PR |
Puerto Rican Spanish is the variety of the Spanish language as characteristically spoken in Puerto Rico and by millions of people of Puerto Rican descent living in the United States and elsewhere.[2] It belongs to the group of Caribbean Spanish variants and, as such, is largely derived from Canarian Spanish and Andalusian Spanish. Outside of Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rican accent of Spanish is also commonly heard in the U.S. Virgin Islands and many U.S. mainland cities like Orlando, New York City, Philadelphia, Miami, Tampa, Boston, Cleveland, and Chicago, among others. However, not all stateside Puerto Ricans have knowledge of Spanish. Opposite to island-born Puerto Ricans who primarily speak Spanish, many stateside-born Puerto Ricans primarily speak English, although many stateside Puerto-Ricans are fluent in Spanish and English, and often alternate between the two languages.[3]
- ^ Spanish (Puerto Rico) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "U.S. Census, The Hispanic Population in the United States: 2004 Detailed Tables, Section I, Table 1.2". Archived from the original on 2018-07-18. Retrieved 2017-12-06.
- ^ Duany, Jorge (n.d.). The Puerto Rican Diaspora to the United States: A Postcolonial Migration? (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-10-16. Retrieved 2020-10-30 – via centropr.hunter.cuny.edu.