What are the main Hispanic American Spanish varieties?

What follows is a basic explanation of the ten major Spanish dialects, where they are spoken, and how they differ: ... read more

First we must realize that there are no variants but “groupings of variants”, i.e. “Mexican Spanish” is an oversimplification because within Mexico there are countless regional variants in terms of accent, intonation, pronunciation and lexicon. read more

In southern Spanish dialects and in those Hispanic American dialects strongly influenced by southern settlers (e.g. Caribbean Spanish), rather than the velar fricative [x], the result was a softer glottal sound [h], like English h in hope. read more

Cuba and Puerto Rico were settled by large amount of Canary islanders and Andalusians. Cuba and Puerto Rico were actually, Provincias Ultramar or Overseas Provinces until the Spanish-American War of 1898. The Spanish Civil War brought huge amounts of Spaniards to Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico. read more