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  1. In another definition, Latin America designates the set of countries in the Americas where a Romance language (a language derived from Latin) predominates: Spanish, Portuguese, or French. Thus, it includes Mexico; most of Central and South America; and in the Caribbean, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti.

  2. The region known as Hispanic America (Spanish: Hispanoamérica or América Hispana) and historically as Spanish America (América Española) is all the Spanish-speaking countries of the Americas.

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    Pronunciation varies from country to country and from region to region, just as English pronunciation varies from one place to another. In general terms, the speech of the Americas shows many common features akin to southern Spanish variants, especially to western Andalusia (Seville, Cádiz) and the Canary Islands. Coastal language vernaculars throu...

    North America

    1. Mexican Spanish 2. Spanish language in the United States 2.1. Isleño Spanish 2.2. Sabine River Spanish 2.3. New Mexican Spanish 2.4. Chicano Spanish

    The Caribbean

    1. Cuban Spanish 2. Dominican Spanish 3. Panamanian Spanish 4. Puerto Rican Spanish 5. Trinidadian Spanish

    South America

    1. Amazonic Spanish 2. Andean Spanish 3. Bolivian Spanish 4. Chilean Spanish 4.1. Chilote Spanish 5. Colombian Spanish 6. Ecuadorian Spanish 7. Paraguayan Spanish 8. Peruvian Spanish 8.1. Peruvian Coast Spanish 9. Rioplatense Spanish 9.1. Argentine Spanish 9.2. Uruguayan Spanish 10. Venezuelan Spanish 10.1. Maracucho Spanish

    Diccionario de americanismos by the Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
  3. 4 days ago · history of Latin America, history of the region from the pre-Columbian period and including colonization by the Spanish and Portuguese beginning in the 15th century, the 19th-century wars of independence, and developments to the end of the 20th century.

  4. Aug 21, 2024 · Latin American Spanish has a number of regional dialects; all are derived from Castilian but differ in several points of phonology from European Spanish. Typical of Latin American Spanish is the use of the /s/ sound where Castilian has the lisplike /th/ sound (for words spelled with a z or c before e or i) and replacement of the Castilian /ly ...

  5. Feb 3, 2024 · In Latin America, Spanish intertwined with indigenous tongues, giving way to colourful vocabulary and tones influenced by Nahuatl, Quechua, Mapuche and more. The sheer size of Latin America, with its mosaic of indigenous cultures, fostered a ton of beautiful regional Spanish dialects.

  6. May 10, 2021 · Mexico is the largest and most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world. Approximately 659 million people live in Latin America. Latin America is a vast region of the Western Hemisphere that stretches from the U.S.-Mexico border all the way down to the southern tip of South America.

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