Were does the Puerto Rican dialect come from?
Well, even though what the person above says is true about us not having an dialect but one language which is unaminously Spanish; our particular Spanish is strikingly similar to Andalusian Spanish (spoken in the south of Spain) whereas most (or say 98%) Latin American countries have some sort of derivative of Castilian Spanish (spoken throughout Spain except in the south), thus the drastic difference in speech, accents, etc. The closest to Puerto Rican Spanish is Cuban because theirs is a variant of Canarian Spanish and the Andalusian region in Spain is within very close proximity of the Canary Islands. I was born in San Juan, the capital; I speak English in the way I do, because I live in the US, but mind you I came to this country without knowing that the English language existed, and I had to learn every word from the ground up…..however, regardless of where or we live, I or we speak English only out of necessity due to the fact that we speak Spanish at home or wherever maybe unl
