us_spanish · United States
US Spanish (Salvadoran-American / LA-DC)
Reference-quality preset: a phonetic matrix and a short blurb, not a full flagship build-out. See a flagship variety (Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Panama) for situations, cultural context, sayings, and a guided path.
United States · Los Angeles & Washington DC-Maryland-Virginia
Salvadoran-American Spanish, concentrated in Los Angeles' Pico-Union/Westlake corridor and the DC-Maryland-Virginia area, retains El Salvador's voseo across second- and third-generation US-born speakers even as English becomes the dominant home language -- a striking case of a morphosyntactic feature outlasting heavy language shift.
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Active features
Every phonetic parameter that deviates from this schema’s diffing anchor, with a plain-English gloss.
| Feature | Value | Meaning | Drill |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mixed Languagesmixed_languages | — | Drill | |
| Intonation Contourintonation_contour | central_american_sing | Drill | |
| Syllable Timingsyllable_timing | stress_timed | Drill | |
| Tuteo Voseotuteo_voseo | voseo | Drill |