Peninsular Spanish instance of language variety
Variants
Variation in Peninsular Spanish, especially phonetic, largely follows a north-south axis, often imagined or characterized as Castilian versus Andalusian in the popular imagination. That said, different isoglosses intersect and never exactly coincide with regional borders.
The Spanish dialects of bilingual regions, such as Castrapo in Galicia or Catalan Spanish, have their own features due to language contact.
A simple, north-south division is:
northern dialects (Castile (including Madrid), León, Cantabria, the Basque Country, Aragon, and Spanish-speaking Catalonia)
southern dialects (Andalusian Spanish, Extremaduran Spanish, Murcian Spanish)Another north-south division would include a central-northern, found north of Madrid and equated with Castilian Spanish, a southern or Andalusian dialect, and an intermediary zone. This division does not include the Spanish of bilingual regions.While a more narrow division includes the following dialect regions:
northern Castile, including Salamanca, Valladolid, Burgos, and neighboring provinces;
northern Extremadura and Leon, including the province of Cáceres, parts of Leon, western Salamanca province, and Zamora
Galicia, referring to the Spanish spoken both monolingually and in contact with Galician
Asturias, especially inland areas such as Oviedo
the interior Cantabrian region, to the south of Santander
the Basque Country, including Spanish as spoken monolingually and incontact with Basque
Catalonia, including Spanish spoken in contact with Catalan
southeastern Spain, including much of Valencia, Alicante, Murcia, Albacete, and southeastern La Mancha
eastern Andalusia, including Granada, Almería, and surrounding areas
western Andalusia, including Seville, Huelva, Cádiz, and the Extremaduran province of Badajoz – the Spanish of Gibraltar is also included
south-central and southwest Spain, including areas to the south of Madrid such as Toledo and Ciudad Real.The related term Castilian Spanish is often applied to formal varieties of Spanish as spoken in Spain.According to folk tradition, the "purest" form of Peninsular Spanish is spoken in Valladolid, although the concept of "pure" languages has been rejected by modern linguists.
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