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From standard Spanish acicalado bembé a big party. [3] [6] bichote Important person. From English big shot. [7] birras Beer. [3] bochinche gossip [8] boricua 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.
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.
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.
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]
Performing arts such as dance are an integral part of cultural expression. Puerto Rican poetry—Composed in Spanish, Spanglish, or English, Puerto Rican poetry has made great contributions to Nuyorican, American, and slam poetry, and inspired many songwriters. Puerto Rican comic books; Sports in Puerto Rico
"Perreo," the name of the dance performed to the rhythm of the widely popular Latin urban genre reggaeton, which has deep roots in Puerto Rico, is officially a Spanish word.
As the English creole is spoken in Dutch St. Martin, and Spanish is the second most dominant language there after English and creole, Puerto Ricans and other Hispanics also speak Spanglish-like code switching of Puerto Rican and other Spanish dialects and local dialect of the island, along with Dutch and standard English. The same situation ...
When Miguel Cabrera de Arecibo wrote the “Jíbaro’s Verses”, this was not the first time a Jíbaro was mentioned in the press – in 1814, an anonymous letter was sent to the publisher of the Puerto Rican newspaper El Diario economico de Puerto Rico, Alejandro Ramírez, protesting the abuses of local tax authorities on poor workers, to ...