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Spanish settlement of Puerto Rico began in the early 1500s shortly after the formation of the Spanish state in 1493 (continuing until 1898 as a colony of Spain) and continues to the present day. The most significant Spanish immigration wave occurred during the colonial period, continuing with smaller numbers arriving during the 20th century to ...
- Puerto Rican Spanish - Wikipedia
Puerto Rican Spanish is the variety of the Spanish language...
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The official languages of the executive branch of government...
- Puerto Rican Spanish - Wikipedia
After 39 years of the imposition of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Spanish became the preferred language of instruction in 1942, and in public schools the vernacular Spanish became the language of teaching and learning in 1940–50.
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Q: What is Puerto Rico’s official language? A: The official languages of Puerto Rico are Spanish and English. Spanish is the most widely spoken language on the island, while a significant portion of the population is bilingual in Spanish and English. Q: Do all Puerto Ricans speak Spanish?
Spanish ( español) or Castilian ( castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 600 million when including second language speakers.
The other major variant for the rr phoneme—common in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic—is articulated at the back of the mouth, either as a glottal [h] followed by a voiceless apical trill or, especially in Puerto Rico, with a posterior articulation that ranges variously from a velar fricative to a uvular trill .
