Amazonic Spanish (''español amazónico''), also known as Charapa Spanish, Loreto-Ucayali Spanish or Jungle Spanish (''español de la selva''), is a variety of
Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Cana ...
spoken in the Amazon, especially in
Ecuador
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, parts of
Colombia
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, Southern
Venezuela
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and the Peruvian provinces of
Loreto,
San Martín
San Martín or San Martin may refer to:
People Saints
* Saint Martin (disambiguation)#People, name of various saints in Spanish
Political leaders
*Vicente San Martin (1839 -1901), Military, National hero of Mexico.
*Basilio San Martin (1849 ...
and
Ucayali
The Ucayali River ( es, Río Ucayali, ) is the main headstream of the Amazon River. It rises about north of Lake Titicaca, in the Arequipa region of Peru and becomes the Amazon at the confluence of the Marañón close to Nauta city. The city o ...
. Amazonic Spanish is also spoken in areas of Brazil adjoining Loreto and Ucayali and in the
Amazonas Department
Amazonas () is a department of Southern Colombia in the south of the country. It is the largest department in area while also having the 3rd smallest population. Its capital is Leticia and its name comes from the Amazon River, which drains t ...
of Colombia.
[Spanish in Brazil, http://www.spanish-in-the-world.net/Spanish/brasil.php ]
Distinctive features
Morphosyntax
One of the distinguishing features of Amazonic Spanish is the method of constructing the possessive form: speakers say "de la ''X'' su ''Y''" (of the ''X'' its ''Y''), instead of standard Spanish "la ''Y'' de ''X''" (the ''Y'' of ''X''). Another distinctive grammatical feature is the use of possessive forms in place of certain genitive forms; compare standard Spanish "Le preguntó a la yaminahua ''delante de mí''" (He asked the Yaminahua woman ''in front of me'') with the Loreto-Ucayali "Le preguntó a la yaminahua ''en mi delante''" (He asked the Yaminahua woman ''in my front'').[Marcone, J. (1997) ''La oralidad escrita'', Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. p. 176 Available online in Spanish at https://books.google.com/books?id=GpKw3yC9mXcC&pg=PA176&lpg=PA176]
Personal names are prefixed with a definite article (''el'' or ''la'', depending on the gender).
Phonology
and especially the sequence are frequently realized as (as in Juana ).
Amazonic Spanish also incorporates words and expressions borrowed from local indigenous languages.
Status
Amazonic Spanish is classified as a separate language from standard Spanish by ''Ethnologue
''Ethnologue: Languages of the World'' (stylized as ''Ethnoloɠue'') is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world. It is the world's most comprehensiv ...
'', with its own ISO 639-3
ISO 639-3:2007, ''Codes for the representation of names of languages – Part 3: Alpha-3 code for comprehensive coverage of languages'', is an international standard for language codes in the ISO 639 series. It defines three-letter codes for i ...
code: spq.[
]
References
External links
Spanish in Brazil
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Spanish dialects of South America
Languages of Peru
Spanish Brazilian
Spanish Colombian
Spanish Peruvian
Upper Amazon
History of Amazonia