The Variety of Spanish

112122274Ryuta Ikemoto

I’ll explain about….Spanish LanguageDevelopment of SpanishDialect of SpanishThe Difference ？・ pronunciation ・ synonymSummary

Spanish languageSpoken over 20 countriesSpain and South America4 hundred million people speaks Spanish　・ Chines ＞ English ＞ Hindi ＞ Spanish

As international languageOfficial language of UN

Development of SpanishThe origin is from Latin 　・ One of the romance language(s)Columbus landed new continent 　・ Spanish go the rounds two continents　・ These continents was dominated by Spain and Spanish expanded

Dialect of Spanish

DifferenceVocabulary<Bus>　 Spain/autobús Mexico/camion 　 Cuba/guagua Argentina/micro Uruguay/ómnibus

Phraseology<Bye bye!>　 Spain/hasta luego Ecuador/chao Peru/chau　

Paeria ？ Paerya ？ Paeya ？

Paella

Pronunciacion of “ll” 　Spain（ zya 　 zyi 　 zyu 　 zye 　 zyo ）South America （ rya 　 ryi 　 ryu 　 rye 　 ryo ）（ ya 　　 yi 　　 yu 　　 ye 　　 yo ）Buenos Aires（ sya 　 syi 　 syu 　 sye 　 syo ）

Pronunciation of “s,c,z”Spain C,Z same as ”th” S Sa shi su se so 　　South America　 　　　　 S,C,Z Sa shi su se so　　　　

Singular Multiple

1st person

Yo(I) Nosotros/as(we)

2nd person

Tú (you) Vosotros/as(you)

3rd person

Él,Ella,Usted

(he,she,you)

Ellos/as,Ustedes(they,you)

Personal pronoun

<Vosotros/as>Features　・ Only used in a close relationship　・ not for the person who is in a higher position

Features　・ For the person who in a higher positon 　・ used when meet someone first time

<Ustedes>

<”Vosotros” of South America>

※Vosotros is not spoken

Feature　・ For all person　・ used for more than 2 people

<”Ustedes” of South America>

Why vosotros not used in South America?

Influence of Andalusia dialect 　No distinction between ”Vosotros”and ”Ustedes”

Influence of colonialization　・ Language control　・ Status system

　

SummaryHistorical background 　 ・ Colonialization ・ Increase of human exchangeGeographical background ・ Isolated environmental ・ mountainous area psychological background ・ sense of stagnation of colonialization

＜ Bibliography ＞Tetsuo Hanamura(1995) 「 Characteristics of

American Spanish 」 Otaru University of Commercehttp://barrel.ih.otaru-uc.ac.jp/bitstream/10252/3560/1/RLA_10_95-104.pdfYoshirou Yamada （ 1996 ）「 language of Spanish 」、同朋舎出版

http://lecture.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~cueda/kenkyu/chiri/tabi/tabi.pdfJohn . M . Lipski （ 2003 ）「 Spanish of Latin

America 」　南雲堂フェニックス