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  2. Puerto Rican Spanish - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Talk:Puerto Rican accents - Wikipedia

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    Puerto Ricans, in general, do pronounce the "elle" as you just described, well maybe a shorter "jazz", but i don't want to generalize since you can find differences in the island. I'm a native, by the way.

  4. Pasteles - Wikipedia

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    In Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Caribbean coast of Colombia, the dish looks like a tamal. In Hawaii, they are called pateles in a phonetic rendering of the Puerto Rican pronunciation of pasteles, as discussed below.

  5. Spanish dialects and varieties - Wikipedia

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    Glottal [h] is nowadays the standard pronunciation for j in Caribbean dialects (Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican) as well as in mainland Venezuela, in most Colombian dialects excepting Pastuso dialect that belongs to a continuum with Ecuadorian Spanish, much of Central America, southern Mexico, [18] the Canary Islands, Extremadura and western ...

  6. English language in Puerto Rico - Wikipedia

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    Spanish is the primary native language of Puerto Rico and by far the most widely spoken of two official languages in the territory, but English is the second official language and plays a significant role in certain sectors of Puerto Rican life. English is taught in all Puerto Rican schools and is the primary language for all of the U.S ...

  7. List of Puerto Rican slang words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    The name given to Puerto Rico people by Puerto Ricans. [3] bregar To work on a task, to do something with effort and dedication. [9] broki brother or friend. [5] cafre a lowlife. Comes from Arabic (Arabic: كافر , romanized: Kafir). cangri A badass, hunk or hottie. [10] An influential person. [11] From English congressman. [7] cariduro

  8. Puerto Rican voters rise as key bloc in 2024 - AOL

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    Puerto Rican voters have shot to center stage in national elections, marking a major shift for an electorate that was largely overlooked for a century. The voting bloc is at the center of national ...

  9. Guttural R - Wikipedia

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    Puerto Rico /ˈpu̯ɛʁto ˈʁiːko/ from Berlin. Although the first standardized pronunciation dictionary by Theodor Siebs prescribed an alveolar pronunciation, most varieties of German are now spoken with a uvular rhotic, usually a fricative or approximant [ ʁ ] , rather than a trill [ ʀ ] .