Cuban Spanish

Cuban Spanish
Cuban Spanish
español cubano (Spanish)
Pronunciation	[espaˈɲol kuˈβano]
Native speakers	11 million (2011)
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Romance Western Ibero-Romance West Iberian Castilian Spanish North American Spanish Caribbean Spanish Cuban Spanish; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Old Latin Classical Latin Vulgar Latin Old Spanish Early Modern Spanish ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin (Spanish alphabet)
Official status
Official language in	Cuba
Regulated by	Academia Cubana de la Lengua
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None
IETF	es-CU

Cuban Spanish is the variety of the Spanish language as it is spoken in Cuba. As a Caribbean variety of Spanish, Cuban Spanish shares a number of features with nearby varieties, including coda weakening and neutralization, non-inversion of Wh-questions, and a lower rate of dropping of subject pronouns compared to other Spanish varieties. As a variety spoken in Latin America, it has seseo and lacks the vosotros pronoun.

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