Cuyo Spanish or Cuyano Spanish (Castellano Cuyano)
is the
dialect
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of
Spanish that evolved in the
historical province of Cuyo and that is now spoken in the Argentine provinces of
Mendoza and
San Juan San Juan, Spanish for Saint John (disambiguation), Saint John, most commonly refers to:
* San Juan, Puerto Rico
* San Juan, Argentina
* San Juan, Metro Manila, a highly urbanized city in the Philippines
San Juan may also refer to:
Places Arge ...
. To a lesser extent, it is also spoken in the provinces of
San Luis and
La Rioja
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. Cuyo Spanish shares a series of common traits with
Chilean Spanish
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due to settlement history and commercial ties. Later on, under the Argentine Republic,
Rioplatense Spanish
Rioplatense Spanish ( , ), also known as Rioplatense Castilian, or River Plate Spanish, is a variety of SpanishAlvar, Manuel, "''Manual de dialectología hispánica. El español de América''", ("Handbook of Hispanic Dialectology. Spanish Lan ...
, the dialect of
Buenos Aires
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and
Uruguay
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influenced Cuyo Spanish.
References
Spanish dialects of South America
Languages of Argentina
Spanish diaspora in Argentina
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