THE VOCALISM AND CONSONANCE OF SPANISH IN HISPANIC AMERICA
THE VOCALISM AND CONSONANCE OF SPANISH IN HISPANIC AMERICA

Summary/Abstract: Spanish is the third most widely spoken international language in regard to the number of speakers. Thus, due to the high percentage of Hispanic speakers in Central and South America, Spanish overseas is of particular interest. Spanish language in America has developed some differences from the standard Spanish language in Spain, so it deserves more attention from linguists.In the last century, linguistic studies on the particularities of Spanish language in Hispanic America have begun to expand worldwide. The differences in phonetics and phonology are important in comparison with Spain, the mother country, by observing the origin of the colonizers and the extension of these phenomena.The importance of the most widespread phenomena regarding the consonantism and vocalism of the Spanish language in Hispanic America corresponds to the linguistic map of Spain (the standard Spanish language).

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