Tropican Spanish
| Tropican Spanish | |
|---|---|
| Español tropicano | |
| Native to | Tropico |
Native speakers | 8,510,000 (2014) |
| Spanish alphabet (Latin script) | |
| Official status | |
| Regulated by | Academia Tropicana de la Lengua |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | es |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
| IETF | es-TR |
Tropican Spanish is Spanish as spoken in Tropico; and also among the Tropican diaspora, most of whom live in the United States, chiefly in New York City, New Jersey, Northbridge, Boston, and Miami.
Tropican Spanish, a subset of Caribbean Spanish, is based on the Andalusian and Canarian Spanish dialects of southern Spain, and has influences from English, African languages, Taíno and other Arawakan languages. Speakers of Tropican Spanish may also use conservative words that in the so-called "upper-class speech of Spain" would be considered archaisms.
History
Most of the Spanish-speaking settlers came from Andalusia (southern Spain) and the Canary Islands. When they first arrived in what is now the Dominican Republic, the first native people they had contact with were the Arawak-speaking Taino people.
Spanish, unlike in other Latin American countries, didn't completely replaced the indigenous languages (Taíno and Xerdan) of Tropico to the point where they became entirely extinct, mainly due to the fact that there was still a large indigenous population. In fact many of the words used by the natives to name these things were conserved and assimilated, thereby enriching Spanish lexicon. Some of these words include:
Tropican Spanish also includes words and pronunciations borrowed from African languages spoken by the Africans brought to the island