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Puerto Rican Spanish

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. Outside of Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rican accent of Spanish is also commonly heard in the U.S. Virgin Islands and many U.S. mainland cities like Orlando, New York City, Philadelphia, Miami, Tampa, Boston, Cleveland, and Chicago, among others. However, not all stateside Puerto Ricans have knowledge of Spanish. Opposite to island-born Puerto Ricans who primarily speak Spanish, many stateside-born Puerto Ricans primarily speak English, although many stateside Puerto-Ricans are fluent in Spanish and English, and often alternate between the two languages.[3]

either a trill, tap, approximant, [l], or elided when followed by a consonant or a pause, as in amo[r ~ ɾ ~ ɹ ~ l ~ ∅] paterno ('paternal love').

a tap, approximant, or [l] when the followed by a vowel-initial word, as in amo ~ ɹ ~ l] eterno ('eternal love').

Spanish dialects and varieties

List of Puerto Rican slang words and phrases

Academia Puertorriqueña de la Lengua Española

a collection of 65 dictionaries and glossaries of Puerto Rican Spanish.

Tesoro lexicográfico del español de Puerto Rico

Puerto Rican Spanish Dictionary and Phrase Book

López Morales, Humberto: Arcaismos lexicos en el espaňol de Puerto Rico

Puerto Rican Spanish 101