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Español de Cuba

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Cuban spanish is a another distinct dialect of spanish which shares many characteristics with other dialects like Dominican and Puerto Rican spanish. Cuban spanish is well known for its weak pronunciation of consonants which gives Cuban spanish a more relaxed sound. For example, like with Argentine spanish, Cuban Spanish aspirates the /s/ in the middle of words: the word mosca would be pronounced in Cuban like "mo[h]ka". Furthermore they may just drop off the last /s/ in a word like despues and instead it would sound "depue" which combines dropping off an /s/ in the middle and end of a word. Another linguistic difference of Cuban spanish is that when a word ends in /r/ this may be dropped just like the /s/ or the /r/ may be changed to an /l/ or /j/. Additionally with the relaxed pronunciation in Cuba, oftentimes the /d/, /b/ and /g/ are barely pronounced, if at all, if they come after a vowel. Just like Chilean spanish, a /d/ can be lost in a word if it is between t...