Phonetic Variation
- New Mexican Spanish has seseo (/c/ before /e/ & /i/ and /z/ are pronounced ). That is, casa ("house") and caza ("hunt") are is homophones. Seseo is prevalent to all of Hispanic America, the Canary Islands, and southern Spain.
Phonetic variations of New Mexican Spanish (these can be manifest in small or large groups of speakers, but very rarely manifest in all speakers):
| Feature | Example | Phonemic | Standard | N.M. Spanish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phrase-final epenthetical or |
voy a cantar | /ˈboi a kanˈtaɾ/ | ||
| dame el papel | /ˈdame el paˈpel/ | |||
| Uvularization of /x/ | mujeres | /muˈxeɾes/ | ||
| Conditional elision of intervocalic /ʝ/ | ella | /ˈeʝa/ | ||
| estrellita | /estɾeˈʝita/ | |||
| Realization of /ɾ/ and/or /r/ as an alveolar approximant |
Rodrigo | /roˈdɾiɡo/ | ||
| Softening of /t͡ʃ/ to | muchachos | /muˈt͡ʃat͡ʃos/ | ||
| Insertion of nasal consonant / nasalisation of vowel preceding postalveolar affricate/fricative |
muchos | /ˈmut͡ʃos/ | ||
| Elision of word-final intervocalic consonants, esp. in -ado |
ocupado | /okuˈpado/ | ||
| todo | /ˈtodo/ | |||
| Aspiration or elision (rare) of /f/ | me fui | /me ˈfui/ | ||
| Completely devoiced /s/ | estas mismas casas | /ˈestas ˈmismas ˈkasas/ | ||
| Velarization of pre-velar-consonant voiced bilabial approximant |
abuelo | /aˈbuelo/ | ||
| Syllable-initial, syllable-final, or total aspiration or elision of /s/ |
somos así | /ˈsomos aˈsi/ | ||
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