Complex sentence: Spanish is the predominant language in the Dominican Republic; the local dialect is called Dominican Spanish, it closely resembles Canarian Spanish, and also has influences from African languages and borrowed vocabularies from the Arawak language.
Split into simpler sentences: Spanish is the predominant language in the Dominican Republic; the local dialect is called Dominican Spanish. It closely resembles Canarian Spanish, and also has influences from African languages and borrowed vocabularies from the Arawak language.