中級西班牙語 拉美西語為甚麼口音都不同？

Latin America is one of the regions with the greatest diversity of accents within a single language. Hello, how are you? How are things? This is Santiago de Chile. I greet you from Buchapa, Hidalgo, the center of Mexico. Hello, greetings from Medellín. My accent is Paisa. I'm Dominican. Wherever I go, my accent is noticeable. Fran24, greetings from Buenos Aires. Hi, dude. In each region of Latin America, Spanish acquires unique tones and nuances. There are hundreds of accents, and in fact, linguists prefer to speak of dialect continua. because in a single region, the invisible borders of speech shift from one neighborhood to another. Why are there such diverse accents in Latin America? Why do Chileans speak so differently from Argentines despite being neighbors? Why does Colombia have such pronounced contrasts as the *llanero*, the *paisa*, or the *caldense*? Or why do S's seem to evaporate in the Caribbean? Let us now look at this map, which we shall already call the map of discord. Many linguists, starting with the Dominican Pedro Enrique Sureña, I have tried to classify Latin American accents into broad groups. These are considered the main ones. The Caribbean, which includes countries such as Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Venezuela, or the Colombian Coast. The Mexican. The Central American. The Andean region, which includes Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and parts of Colombia. The Chilean. And the Río de la Plata region, which includes Argentina and Uruguay. Yes, we call it the discord because accents do not recognize political borders. A resident of the border between Mexico and Guatemala It shares more sounds with its neighbor than with someone from its own capital. To understand this Tower of Babel, we must examine four key elements. Spanish was imposed between the 16th and 18th centuries. in a region that had already spoken its own languages for millennia. These languages acted as a mold. In Peru, Bolivia, or the Ecuadorian highlands, There is a huge influence of Quechua and Aymara. These languages have a very strong vowel system. What makes Andean Spanish considered conservative? All letters are pronounced with near-musical clarity and a measured rhythm. The accent we speak here in Peru is diverse. This is due to the regions we have, which are coast, highlands, and jungle. Another example is Nahuatl, which contributed the articulation of atel and certain tonal variations in some regions of Mexico, such as in the central part of the country. My accent is affectionate and singsong on the final syllables. For example, don't mess around. This explains why Mexican Spanish sounds so different from Andean Spanish. even within Mexico, indigenous geography created sonic islands, from the rugged northern style to the rhythmic Yucatecan music influenced by Maya culture, just to mention a few. Not all Spanish colonizers who crossed the ocean were the same. Here is the secret. The fleets coming from Seville and the Canary Islands first arrived at the coasts and ports, the lowlands That's why in the Caribbean, Veracruz, or Buenos Aires In contrast, toward the interior and the mountains, to the highlands, Officials and nobles from Castile arrived, imposing a more closed and orthographically strict speech what survives today in Bogotá, Quito, or Mexico City. Caribbean accents tend to have a fast rhythm and aspirate consonants. what is a direct inheritance from the Andalusian ports. But these accents also have a strong African heritage. what stands out in the rhythm and intonation. It is a language that, in a way, is danced. The emphasis is not only on the words, but also on the syncopation and tempo. They say our accent is very funny, and I think so too. On the other end is the Rioplatense dialect in Argentina. The porteño accent is a Rioplatense accent with Italian influence. It has a little song and is characterized by cheísmo. Italian immigration at the end of the nineteenth century did not change the words, But it did leave the melody and the "che" for the L or the Y. As for the use of the voice, it is a linguistic relic. It comes from Old Spanish, where it was a formula of courtesy. While in Spain the voice died, in America it remained to live in the Río de la Plata, in Central America, and in isolated regions such as Antioquia. Latin America is a region of brutal geographical contrasts, mountains and jungles that acted as linguistic barriers. A clear example is Colombia, where the three ranges of the Andes they created niches where the language evolved in isolation, giving way to the paisa, the Bogotá rolo, or the llanero. The Chilean accent, a case studied worldwide. They say that the Chilean accent is very difficult to understand, and Hey, maybe it's true, but we have a rich cultural heritage. The Chilean evolved in a unique way due to its historical isolation. between the mountain range and the sea, what accelerated the fall of sounds and created a very rich, unique vocabulary influenced by the indigenous languages themselves. And you? What features does the accent of your region have? Do you know why you inherited this way of speaking? Leave us your comments on our social media channels while we wait for more episodes of In 5 Minutes.