Puerto+Rico

=Language Choice in Puerto Rico = Arianna Scott

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The tropical island of Puerto Rico is located approximately 2,300 miles from the United States. Although Spanish is primarily spoken, English is a co-official language of the commonwealth. On the Island of Puerto Rico, Spanish speakers most often talk with the general Caribbean dialect. Puerto Rico does differ from the greater dialect in the sense that many speakers have made a particular language choice. These speakers have the tendency of turning the velar RR (word initial r-/-rr-/-r- after n or l) becomes the "h" sound, or [x]. Speakers who use this dialect often do so to show association with the [|independence movement]. For example, someone from Puerto Rico who believed in this movement would say they were from [pwelto xico] rather than [pwerto rico].

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