Honduran Spanish
Español hondureño
Pronunciation[espaˈɲol onduˈɾeɲo]
Native toHonduras
RegionCentral American Spanish
Native speakers
10,637,827 million (2023)[1]
Early forms
Latin (Spanish alphabet)
Official status
Official language in
 Honduras
Regulated byAcademia Hondureña de la Lengua
Language codes
ISO 639-1es
ISO 639-2spa[2]
ISO 639-3–
GlottologNone
IETFes-HN

Honduran Spanish is the Spanish language as spoken in the country of Honduras in Central America. Voseo is routinely used in Honduras.

Phonology

  • Honduran Spanish, as a Central American variety, pronounces the fricative /x/, written with ⟨j⟩ or ⟨g⟩, as a simple aspiration [h].[3]
  • /ʝ/ is at times elided in contact with front vowels.[3]
  • Word-final /n/ becomes velarized, as [ŋ].[3]
  • /s/ is often aspirated or elided in word- or syllable-final position. As an apparent extension of this, it may even be aspirated in word-initial or word-medial, syllable-initial environments. This word-medial aspiration is most common near morpheme boundaries, and in the pronoun nosotros, 'we'. S-reduction is most common in the north of Honduras. It is less common in areas of Copán Department near the Guatemalan border, in Comayagua, and among the upper classes of Tegucigalpa.[4]

Local words

These words are some slang words used in Honduras. Some may also be used in neighboring El Salvador and elsewhere.

  • Bululo - bread roll
  • Trucha or pulpería - corner shop
  • Relajo - mess
  • Jura or chepo - police patrol
  • Posta - police station
  • Maje - dude
  • Cipote(a) - kid (male, when it ends with "e"; and female, when it ends with "a")
  • Güirro(a) - kid (male, when it ends with "o"; and female, when it ends with "a")
  • Juco(a) - Dirty person (male, when it ends with "o"; and female, when it ends with "a")
  • Colocho - Curls (in reference to hair)
  • Chongo - Bow (gift wrapping)
  • Encachimbar - to annoy/upset
  • Bolo - Drunk
  • Goma - Hangover
  • Paila - A bucket. Also used to refer to a pick up truck (Carro Paila)
  • Pisto/Billullo - Money
  • Chabacán - Trouble Maker
  • Guachimán - Security guard (Comes from the English word, Watchman)

References

  1. ↑ Spanish → Honduras at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ↑ "ISO 639-2 Language Code search". Library of Congress. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 Lipski, John M. (2008). "Central American Spanish in the United States". Varieties of Spanish in the United States. Georgetown University Press. pp. 142–149. ISBN 9781589016514.
  4. ↑ Lipski, John M. (1986). "Instability and Reduction of /s/ in the Spanish of Honduras". Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. 11 (1): 27–47. ISSN 0384-8167. JSTOR 27762472.
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