Belizean Spanish

Belizean Spanish
Belizean Spanish
Español beliceño
Pronunciation	[espaˈɲol βeliˈseɲo]
Ethnicity	Hispanic and Latin American Belizeans
Native speakers	200,000 all dialects of Spanish (2014–2019)
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Romance Western Ibero-Romance West Iberian Castilian Spanish North American Spanish Central American Spanish Belizean Spanish; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Old Latin Classical Latin Vulgar Latin Old Spanish Early Modern Spanish ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin (Spanish alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None
IETF	es-BZ
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Belizean Spanish (Spanish: español beliceño) is the dialect of Spanish spoken in Belize. It is similar to Caribbean Spanish, Andalusian Spanish, and Canarian Spanish. While English is the only official language of Belize, Spanish is the common language of majority (62.8%), wherein 174,000 (52.9% of Belizeans) speak some variety of Spanish as a native language. Belizeans of Guatemalan, Honduran, Mexican (including Mexican Mennonites), Nicaraguan, Salvadoran (including Salvadoran Mennonites), and even Cuban descent may speak different dialects of Spanish, but since they grow up in Belize, they adopt the local accent.

^ Spanish at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[1] Spanish at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

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