Honduran Spanish

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Honduran Spanish
Español hondureño
Native to	Honduras
Region	Central American Spanish
Native speakers	6 million (2014)[1] 112,000 in Honduras (2014)
Language family	Indo-European Italic Romance Western Ibero-Romance West Iberian Spanish North American Spanish Central American Spanish Honduran Spanish
Early forms	Old Latin Classical Latin Vulgar Latin Old Spanish Early Modern Spanish
Writing system	Latin (Spanish alphabet)
Official status
Official language in	Honduras
Regulated by	Academia Hondureña de la Lengua
Language codes
ISO 639-1	es
ISO 639-2	spa[2]
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None
IETF	es-HN
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Spanish language
A manuscript of the Cantar de mio Cid, 13th century
Overview
Pronunciation stress Orthography Names
History
Old Middle Influences Judaeo-Spanish
Grammar
Determiners Nouns gender Pronouns personal object Adjectives Prepositions Verbs conjugation irregular verbs
Dialects
Andalusian Andean Argentine Belizean Bolivian Canarian Caribbean Central American Chilean Colombian Costa Rican Cuban Dominican Ecuadorian Equatoguinean Guatemalan Honduran Mexican Murcian New Mexican Nicaraguan Panamanian Peninsular Peruvian Philippine Puerto Rican Rioplatense Saharan Salvadorian Standard Uruguayan
Dialectology
seseo yeísmo voseo leísmo loísmo
Interlanguages
Belgranodeutsch Llanito Portuñol Spanglish Castrapo Creoles Roquetas Pidgin Chavacano or Chabacano Palenquero or Palenque
Teaching
Hispanism RAE Instituto Cervantes
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Honduran Spanish is the Spanish language as spoken in the country of Honduras in Central America. The voseo is routinely used in Honduras.

Phonology[]

• Honduran Spanish, as a Central American variety, pronounces the fricative /x/, represented by ⟨j⟩ and ⟨g⟩, is pronounced as a simple aspiration [h].^[3]
• /j/ tends to be very weak, even eliding at times in contact with front vowels.^[3]
• Word-final /n/ becomes velarized, as [ŋ].^[3]
• /s/ is often aspirated or elided in word- or syllable-final position. As an apparent extension of this, it may even be aspirated in word-initial or word-medial, syllable-initial environments. This word-medial aspiration is most common near morpheme boundaries, and in the pronoun nosotros, 'we'. S-reduction is most common in the north of Honduras. It's less common in areas of Copán Department near the Guatemalan border, in Comayagua, and among the upper classes of Tegucigalpa. ^[4]

Local words[]

These words are some slang words used in Honduras. Some may also be used in neighboring El Salvador and elsewhere.

• Bululo - bread roll
• Trucha or pulpería - corner shop
• Relajo - mess
• Jura or chepo - police patrol
• Posta - police station
• Maje - dude
• Cipote(a) - kid (male, when it ends with "e"; and female, when it ends with "a")
• Güirro(a) - kid (male, when it ends with "o"; and female, when it ends with "a")
• Juco(a) - Dirty person (male, when it ends with "o"; and female, when it ends with "a")
• Colocho - Curls (in reference to hair)
• Chongo - Bow (gift wrapping)
• Encachimbar - to annoy/upset
• Bolo - Drunk
• Goma - Hangover
• Paila - A bucket. Also used to refer to a pick up truck (Carro Paila)
• Pisto/Billullo - Money
• Chabacán - Trouble Maker
• Guachimán - Security guard (Comes from the English word, Watchman)

References[]

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