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Panamanian Spanish is geographically defined as the form of Spanish spoken in the country of Panama in Central America. The variations among different speaker groups of the same language can be lexical (vocabulary), phonological (pronunciation), morphological (word forms), or in the use of syntax (grammar). Historically, Panama and Colombia were part of the same political entity. Colombia, governed from the Real Audiencia of Panama during the 16th century, then part of Castilla de Oro, with its capital in Panama, during the 17th century, and after independence from Spain, Panama voluntarily became part of the Republic of Gran Colombia along with Venezuela and Ecuador, with its capital in Bogota. From the colonial times and periods and also during most of the 19th century and until 1903, and even though there are still lexical similarities shared by the two countries (e.g., ''pelao'' in both Colombia and Panama means "kid" or "child"), phonetically Panamanian Spanish is more closely associated with the Spanish as spoken in the coastal areas around the Caribbean, specifically Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and the Atlantic coast of Colombia and Venezuela. == Phonology and Phonetics == The main characteristic of Caribbean Spanish is the debuccalization of the sound at the end of a syllable or word, such as in the word ''cascada'', pronounced (like "h" in the English word "he") instead of . This aspiration is also observed in the coastal regions of Peru and Ecuador and in Chile, Argentina and Uruguay, and in Andalusia and the Canary Islands of Spain. Another change observed in Panamanian Spanish is the deaffrication of (as "ch" in the English word "chips") to (as "sh" in the English word "she"), so that e.g. ''muchacho'' is pronounced , rather than ''muchacho'' . This pronunciation is found primarily among less educated speakers, although it can sometimes be observed among better educated speakers; this is common to Andalusian Spanish. The phoneme is realized as glottal ; this is common to Caribbean and other Latin American Spanish dialects, Canarian, and Andalusian Spanish dialects. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Panamanian Spanish」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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