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Costa Rican Spanish (Spanish: español costarricense) is the form of the Spanish language spoken in Costa Rica. It is one of the dialects of Central American Spanish . Nevertheless, because the country was more remote than its neighbors, the development of this variety of Spanish followed a distinct path.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Spanish on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Spanish in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Miguel Ángel Quesada Pacheco (San José, 6 May 1955) is a Costa Rican linguist and professor.His areas of research include the dialectology of Central American Spanish, the history of the Spanish language in Costa Rica and the documentation of Central America's indigenous languages, with a special focus on the Chibchan languages.
Although in most Spanish-speaking territories and regions, guttural or uvular realizations of /r/ are considered a speech defect, back variants for /r/ ([ʀ], [x] or [χ]) are widespread in rural Puerto Rican Spanish and in the dialect of Ponce, [31] whereas they are heavily stigmatized in the dialect of the capital San Juan. [32]
Central American Spanish (Spanish: español centroamericano or castellano centroamericano) is the general name of the Spanish language dialects spoken in Central America. More precisely, the term refers to the Spanish language as spoken in Costa Rica , El Salvador , Guatemala , Honduras , and Nicaragua .
Costa Rica (literally 'rich coast'), officially the Republic of Costa Rica (Spanish: Costa Rica or Spanish: República de Costa Rica, IPA: [reˈpuβlika ðe ˈkosta ˈrika]), is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the south-southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, and the Caribbean Sea to the east
Distinct Puerto Rican words like "jevo,", "jurutungo" and "perreo" have been submitted to Spain's Royal Academy- considered the global arbiter of the Spanish language.
Costa Rica's official and predominant language is Spanish.The variety spoken there, Costa Rican Spanish, is a form of Central American Spanish. Costa Rica is a linguistically diverse country and home to at least five living local indigenous languages spoken by the descendants of pre-Columbian peoples: Maléku, Cabécar, Bribri, Guaymí, and Buglere.