Featured Video: Diana Echavarría: Las onces
- Location:
- Bogotá, Colombia
- Linguistic feature(s):
- "Jota glotal": /x/ ➔ [h]
- Language:
- Spanish
- Topic(s):
- Food
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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: Baldomero Cuma Chávez (Kawoq): No les da vergüenza hablar kaqchikel, ¿verdad?
- Location:
- Santa María de Jesús, Guatemala
- Linguistic feature(s):
- Velarization of word-final /n/
- Language:
- Spanish
- Topic(s):
- Indigenous cultures, Language use
- Click here for more information and to view the video.
An archive of dialectally varied, spoken language data from throughout the Spanish-speaking world.