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Panama (Interior / Azuero)

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Panama · Azuero Peninsula

The conservative folkloric heartland of Panama keeps coda /s/ and the infinitival /r/ far more intact than the syncopated, syllable-dropping speech of Panama City.

Retained (not softened) infinitival /r/Standard coda /s/Little to no syncopation, unlike the capitalSlower, more deliberate rhythm

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Every phonetic parameter that deviates from this schema’s diffing anchor, with a plain-English gloss.

FeatureValueMeaningDrill
Mixed Languagesmixed_languagesDrill
S Treatments_treatmentstandardDrill
R Infinitiver_infinitivestandardDrill
Vowel Reductionvowel_reductioncrisp_openDrill