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Argentina (Córdoba / Tonada Cordobesa)

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Argentina · Córdoba

The famous 'tonada cordobesa' gives Cordoban Spanish a sliding, musical quality distinct from the Porteño bounce. Linguistically the tonada stretches the pretonic syllable rather than the phrase-final one; final_syllable_lengthening is used here as the engine's closest available proxy for that stretching effect. Like the rest of the Rioplatense dialect area, Córdoba also shares sheísmo/zheísmo -- the /ll,y/ rehilamiento is not a Buenos Aires-only feature.

Lengthened syllable ('tonada')Voseo: vos tenésDistinctive Cordoban sliding intonationAspirated coda /s/Sheísmo: /ll,y/ -> [ʃ] (shared with Buenos Aires)

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FeatureValueMeaningDrill
Mixed Languagesmixed_languagesDrill
Yeismo Styleyeismo_stylesh_soundDrill
Intonation Contourintonation_contourrioplatense_bounceDrill
Final Syllable Lengtheningfinal_syllable_lengtheningYesDrill
Tuteo Voseotuteo_voseovoseoDrill