Featured Video: Anonymous: La bendición
- Location:
- Nagua (El Cibao), Dominican Republic
- Linguistic feature(s):
- Aspiration of /s/, Deletion of /s/, Aspiration of Latin /f/, Liquid leveling: liquid gliding, "Jota glotal": /x/ ➔ [h], Pre-aspiration of /r/
- Language:
- Spanish
- Topic(s):
- Family and self
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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: Josefina Díaz Soriano: La guerra empezó
- Location:
- Torrebaja (Valencia), Spain
- Linguistic feature(s):
- Distinction of /s/ vs. /θ/, Apical /s/, Lleísmo, "Jota uvular": /x/ ➔ [χ], [ʀ̥], Vosotros
- Language:
- Spanish
- Topic(s):
- Conflicts and Violence
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An archive of dialectally varied, spoken language data from throughout the Spanish-speaking world.