Featured Video: Diana Lara: El mate
- Location:
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Linguistic feature(s):
- Aspiration of /s/, Zheísmo/sheísmo, "Jota velar": /x/ ➔ [x]
- Language:
- Spanish
- Topic(s):
- Food
- Click here for more information and to view the video.
Welcome!
Welcome to the Digital Catalog of the Sounds of Spanish, an archive of dialectally varied, spoken language data from throughout the Spanish-speaking world. Soon virtually every Spanish-speaking country will be represented with audio and video files that you can use in teaching and learning more about linguistic and cultural diversity. Speech samples are cross-listed by geography, linguistic feature, and conversational topic. They appear with written transcripts, dialectological annotations, and user-friendly navigational capabilities. Use the advanced search link in the navigation bar above to get started. And come back often!
Featured Video: Gerardina Garita-Lacey: La chicha
- Location:
- San José, Costa Rica
- Linguistic feature(s):
- "Jota glotal": /x/ ➔ [h], Assibilation of /r/, Velarization of word-final /n/
- Language:
- Spanish
- Topic(s):
- Food
- Click here for more information and to view the video.
An archive of dialectally varied, spoken language data from throughout the Spanish-speaking world.