Cuban Spanish

Cuban Spanish
español cubano (Spanish)
Pronunciation[espaˈɲol kuˈβano]
EthnicityCubans
Native speakers
11 million (2021)
Early forms
Latin (Spanish alphabet)
Official status
Official language in
 Cuba
Regulated byAcademia Cubana de la Lengua
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologcuba1237
IETFes-CU

Cuban Spanish is the variety of the Spanish language as it is spoken in Cuba. As a Caribbean variety of Spanish, Cuban Spanish shares a number of features with nearby varieties, including coda weakening and neutralization, non-inversion of Wh-questions, and a lower rate of dropping of subject pronouns compared to other Spanish varieties. As a variety spoken in Latin America, it has seseo and lacks the vosotros pronoun.