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color: black; background-color: #c9ffd9;">Belizean Spanish</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-size:110%; color: black; background-color: #c9ffd9;">Español beliceño</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Pronunciation</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="es-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Spanish" title="Help:IPA/Spanish">[espaˈɲol<span class="wrap"> </span>βeliˈseɲo]</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Ethnicity</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latin_American_Belizean" title="Hispanic and Latin American Belizean">Hispanic and Latin American Belizeans</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Native speakers</div></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">200,000 all dialects of Spanish (2014–2019)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; 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line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Early forms</div></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Old_Latin" title="Old Latin">Old Latin</a> <ul style="line-height:100%; margin-left:1.35em; padding-left:0"><li><a href="/wiki/Classical_Latin" title="Classical Latin">Classical Latin</a> <ul style="line-height:100%; margin-left:0.45em; padding-left:0"><li><a href="/wiki/Vulgar_Latin" title="Vulgar Latin">Vulgar Latin</a> <ul style="line-height:100%; margin-left:0.45em; padding-left:0"><li><a href="/wiki/Old_Spanish" title="Old Spanish">Old Spanish</a> <ul style="line-height:100%; margin-left:0.45em; padding-left:0"><li><a href="/wiki/Early_Modern_Spanish" title="Early Modern Spanish">Early Modern Spanish</a> </li></ul> </li></ul> </li></ul> </li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><span class="wrap"><a href="/wiki/Writing_system" title="Writing system">Writing system</a></span></div></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Latin_script" title="Latin script">Latin</a> (<a href="/wiki/Spanish_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish alphabet">Spanish alphabet</a>)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: black; background-color: #c9ffd9;">Language codes</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/ISO_639-3" title="ISO 639-3">ISO 639-3</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">–</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;"><i><a href="/wiki/Glottolog" title="Glottolog">Glottolog</a></i></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><i>None</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/IETF_language_tag" title="IETF language tag">IETF</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><code>es-BZ</code></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below noprint selfref" style="background-color:#E7E7FF;color:inherit;padding:0.3em 0.5em;text-align:left;line-height:1.3;"><b>This article contains <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a> phonetic symbols.</b> Without proper <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA#Rendering_issues" title="Help:IPA">rendering support</a>, you may see <a href="/wiki/Specials_(Unicode_block)#Replacement_character" title="Specials (Unicode block)">question marks, boxes, or other symbols</a> instead of <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a> characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA" title="Help:IPA">Help:IPA</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236303919">@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-has-images-with-white-backgrounds img{background:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-has-images-with-white-backgrounds img{background:white}}</style> <p><b>Belizean Spanish</b> (Spanish: <i>español beliceño</i>) is the dialect of Spanish spoken in <a href="/wiki/Belize" title="Belize">Belize</a>. It is similar to <a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Spanish" title="Caribbean Spanish">Caribbean Spanish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andalusian_Spanish" title="Andalusian Spanish">Andalusian Spanish</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Canarian_Spanish" title="Canarian Spanish">Canarian Spanish</a>. While English is the only official language of Belize, Spanish is the common language of majority (62.8%), wherein 174,000 (52.9% of Belizeans) speak some variety of Spanish as a native language. Belizeans of Guatemalan, Honduran, Mexican (including Mexican Mennonites), Nicaraguan, Salvadoran (including Salvadoran Mennonites), and even Cuban descent may speak different dialects of Spanish, but since they grow up in Belize, they adopt the local accent. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belizean_Spanish&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Spanish language came to Belize when the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Tordesillas" title="Treaty of Tordesillas">Treaty of Tordesillas</a> was signed in 1494, claiming the entire western <a href="/wiki/New_World" title="New World">New World</a> for Spain, including what is now Belize. Then in the mid-16th century Spanish <a href="/wiki/Conquistadors" class="mw-redirect" title="Conquistadors">conquistadors</a> explored this territory, declaring it a Spanish colony<sup id="cite_ref-Johnson2003_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Johnson2003-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> incorporated into the <a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Guatemala" title="Captaincy General of Guatemala">Captaincy General of Guatemala</a> on December 27, 1527, when it was founded.<sup id="cite_ref-CUÑA_BRITÁNICA_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CUÑA_BRITÁNICA-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the second half of that century it was integrated into the government of <a href="/wiki/Yucatan" class="mw-redirect" title="Yucatan">Yucatan</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_New_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Viceroyalty of New Spain">Viceroyalty of New Spain</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Minasexcoo_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Minasexcoo-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, few Spanish settled in the area because of the lack of the gold they'd come seeking and the strong resistance of the <a href="/wiki/Maya_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Maya people">Maya people</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Johnson2003_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Johnson2003-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Spanish colonists living in Belize often fought against the Maya, who were affected by slavery and disease carried by the Spanish.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 20 January 1783, shortly after the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles_(1783)" class="mw-redirect" title="Treaty of Versailles (1783)">Treaty of Versailles</a>, Britain and Spain signed a peace treaty in which Spain ceded to Britain a small part of Belize, about 1.482 km square<sup id="cite_ref-legion_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-legion-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> located between the <a href="/wiki/Rio_Hondo_(Belize)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rio Hondo (Belize)">Hondo</a> and Belize rivers.<sup id="cite_ref-CUÑA_BRITÁNICA_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CUÑA_BRITÁNICA-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> British settlers obtained a further concession. By the <a href="/wiki/Convention_of_London_(1786)" title="Convention of London (1786)">London Convention of 1786</a> Spain ceded Belize another 1.883 km square (reaching the Sibun River or Manate Laguna, south of the Belize River). The British banned teaching of Spanish in schools. </p><p>But after thousands of <a href="/wiki/Maya_peoples" title="Maya peoples">Maya people</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mestizos" class="mw-redirect" title="Mestizos">mestizos</a> were driven from the area of Bacalar during the <a href="/wiki/Caste_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Caste War">Caste War</a> (1847–1901),<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> about 7000 Mexican mestizos immigrated during these years,<sup id="cite_ref-prolades_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-prolades-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Q%27eqchi%27_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Q'eqchi' people">Kekchi</a> emigrated from <a href="/wiki/Verapaz,_Guatemala" title="Verapaz, Guatemala">Verapaz</a>, Guatemala, where their lands had been seized for coffee plantations and many of them enslaved in the 1870s–1880s, <a href="/wiki/Mopan_people" title="Mopan people">Mopan</a> returned to Belize around 1886, fleeing enslavement and taxation in <a href="/wiki/Pet%C3%A9n_(department)" class="mw-redirect" title="Petén (department)">Petén</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mennonites_in_Mexico" title="Mennonites in Mexico">Mennonite Mexicans</a> settled in the north and west of Belize after 1958 (<a href="/wiki/Mennonites_in_Mexico" title="Mennonites in Mexico">Mexican Mennonites</a> may have intermarried with native-born mestizos and Mexican mestizos),<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and thousands of undocumented migrants moved to the central and western parts of the country, including approximately 40,000 Salvadorans (including <a href="/wiki/Mennonites_in_El_Salvador" title="Mennonites in El Salvador">Salvadoran Mennonites</a>), Guatemalans, Hondurans and Nicaraguans immigrated to Belize in this decade of strife in neighboring countries between 1980 and 1990,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> this, along with a high fertility rate, dramatically increased the number of Hispanics in Belize, causing concern over the rapid growth of the Spanish language in a country where the official language is English.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Phonology">Phonology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belizean_Spanish&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Phonology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>As in all of the Americas and parts of Spain, there is no distinction of <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/s/</span> and <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/θ/</span>, they are pronounced as <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[s]</span>.</li> <li>As in most American lowland varieties of Spanish and in southern Spain, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/s/</span> at the end of a syllable or before a consonant is realized typically as a glottal <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiceless_glottal_fricative" title="Voiceless glottal fricative">h</a>]</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/x/</span> is realized as glottal <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiceless_glottal_fricative" title="Voiceless glottal fricative">h</a>]</span>, as in several American lowland varieties and in parts of Spain.</li> <li>There is no confusion between <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/l/</span> and <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/r/</span>, unlike in Caribbean Spanish.</li> <li>As Belize is bordered by Mexico and was inhabited by Mayan and Nahuatl peoples, Belizean Spanish adopted the <a href="/wiki/Voiceless_alveolar_affricate" title="Voiceless alveolar affricate">voiceless alveolar affricate</a> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[t͡s]</span> and the cluster <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[tl]</span> (originally <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/tɬ/</span>) represented by the respective digraphs <span class="nowrap">⟨tz⟩</span> and <span class="nowrap">⟨tl⟩</span> in loanwords of Nahuatl origin, <i><a href="/wiki/Quetzal" title="Quetzal">quetzal</a></i> and <i>tlapalería</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[t͡ɬapaleˈɾia]</span> ('hardware store'). Even words of Greek and Latin origin with <span class="nowrap">⟨tl⟩</span>, such as <i lang="es"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Atl%C3%A1ntico#Spanish" class="extiw" title="wikt:Atlántico">Atlántico</a></i> and <i lang="es"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/atleta#Spanish" class="extiw" title="wikt:atleta">atleta</a></i>, are pronounced with <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/tl/</span>: <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[aˈtlantiko]</span>, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[aˈtleta]</span> (compare <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[aðˈlantiko]</span>, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[aðˈleta]</span> in Spain and other dialects in Hispanic America<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>).</li> <li>Aside from <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɾ]</span> and <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[r]</span>, syllable-final <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/r/</span> can be realized as <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_approximant" class="mw-redirect" title="Voiced alveolar approximant">ɹ</a>]</span>, an influence of <a href="/wiki/British_English" title="British English">British English</a>: <i>"verso"</i> (verse) becomes <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ˈbeɹso]</span>, aside from <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ˈbeɾso]</span> or <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ˈberso]</span>, "<i>invierno</i>" (winter) becomes <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[imˈbjeɹno]</span>, aside from <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[imˈbjeɾno]</span> or <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[imˈbjerno]</span>, and "<i>parlamento</i>" (parliament) becomes <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[paɹlaˈmento]</span>, aside from <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[paɾlaˈmento]</span> or <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[parlaˈmento]</span>. In word-final position, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/r/</span> will usually be either a trill, a tap or an approximant, as in the phrase "<i>amo</i><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[r<span class="wrap"> </span>~<span class="wrap"> </span>ɾ<span class="wrap"> </span>~<span class="wrap"> </span>ɹ]</span> <i>eterno</i>" (eternal love).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belizean_Spanish&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latin_Belizean" class="mw-redirect" title="Hispanic and Latin Belizean">Hispanic and Latin Belizean</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belizean_Spanish&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ethnologue.com/25/language/spa">Spanish</a> at <i><a href="/wiki/Ethnologue" title="Ethnologue">Ethnologue</a></i> (25th ed., 2022) <span style="position:relative; 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(October 2003). 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