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{{Short description|Dialect}}
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{{Infobox language
| name          = Honduran Spanish
| nativename    = Español hondureño
| pronunciation = {{IPA|es|espaˈɲol onduˈɾeɲo|}}
| states        = [[Honduras]]
| date          = 2023
| speakers      = 10,637,827 million
| ref           = <ref>{{Ethnologue18|spa|Spanish → Honduras}}</ref>
| region        = [[Central American Spanish]]
| script        = [[Latin script|Latin]] ([[Spanish alphabet]])
| agency        = [[Academia Hondureña de la Lengua]]
| nation        = {{HON}}
| iso1          = es
| iso2          = spa<ref>{{cite web|title=ISO 639-2 Language Code search|url=https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/langcodes-keyword.php?SearchTerm=spa&SearchType=iso_639_2&Submit=Go|website=Library of Congress|access-date=21 September 2017}}</ref>
| familycolor   = Indo-European
| fam2          = [[Italic languages|Italic]]
| fam3          = [[Latino-Faliscan languages|Latino-Faliscan]]
| fam4          = [[Romance languages|Romance]]
| fam5          = [[Western Romance languages|Western]]
| fam6          = [[Ibero-Romance languages|Ibero-Romance]]
| fam7          = [[West Iberian languages|West Iberian]]
| fam8          = [[Castilian languages|Castilian]]
| fam9          = [[Spanish language|Spanish]]
| fam10         = [[North American Spanish]]
| fam11         = [[Central American Spanish]]
| ancestor      = [[Old Latin]]
| ancestor2     = [[Classical Latin]]
| ancestor3     = [[Vulgar Latin]]
| ancestor4     = [[Old Spanish]]
| ancestor5     = [[Early Modern Spanish]]
| isoexception  = dialect
| glotto        = none
| ietf          = es-HN
| notice        = IPA
}}
{{Spanish language}}
'''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 Spanish|Central American]] variety, pronounces the fricative {{IPAslink|x}}, written with {{angbr|j}} or {{angbr|g}}, as a simple aspiration {{IPAblink|h}}.<ref name="Lipski">{{cite book|last1=Lipski|first1=John M.|title=Varieties of Spanish in the United States|date=2008|publisher=Georgetown University Press|isbn=9781589016514|pages=142–149|chapter=Central American Spanish in the United States|author-link=John M. Lipski}}</ref>
* {{IPA|/ʝ/}} is at times elided in contact with front vowels.<ref name="Lipski"/>
* Word-final {{IPAslink|n}} becomes velarized, as {{IPAblink|ŋ}}.<ref name="Lipski"/>
* {{IPAslink|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 {{langx|es|label=none|nosotros|lit=we}}. S-reduction is most common in the north of Honduras. It is less common in areas of [[Copán Department]] near the [[Guatemala]]n border, in [[Comayagua]], and among the upper classes of [[Tegucigalpa]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lipski |first1=John M. |title=Instability and Reduction of /s/ in the Spanish of Honduras |journal=Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos |date=1986 |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=27–47 |jstor=27762472 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27762472 |issn=0384-8167}}</ref>

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

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Honduran Spanish !! Gloss
|-
| {{lang|es|bululo}} || bread roll
|-
| {{lang|es|trucha}} || rowspan=2|corner shop
|-
| {{lang|es|pulpería}}
|-
| {{lang|es|relajo}} || mess
|-
| {{lang|es|jura}} || rowspan=2|police patrol
|-
| {{lang|es|chepo}}
|-
| {{lang|es|posta}} || police station
|-
| {{lang|es|maje}} || dude
|-
| {{lang|es|cipote}} || rowspan=2|boy
|-
| {{lang|es|güirro}}
|-
| {{lang|es|cipota}} || rowspan=2|girl
|-
| {{lang|es|güirra}}
|-
| {{lang|es|juco}} || dirty man
|-
| {{lang|es|juca}} || dirty woman
|-
| {{lang|es|colocho}} || curls (in reference to hair)
|-
| {{lang|es|chongo}} || bow (gift wrapping)
|-
| {{lang|es|encachimbar}} || to annoy, to upset
|-
| {{lang|es|bolo}} || drunk
|-
| {{lang|es|goma}} || hangover
|-
| {{lang|es|paila}} || bucket
|-
| {{lang|es|carro paila}} || pick-up truck
|-
| {{lang|es|pisto}} || rowspan=2|money
|-
| {{lang|es|billullo}}
|-
| {{lang|es|chabacán}} || troublemaker
|-
| {{lang|es|guachiman}} || security guard (from English {{gloss|watchman}})
|}

==References==
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{{Spanish variants by continent}}
{{Languages of Honduras}}

[[Category:Languages of Honduras]]
[[Category:Central American Spanish]]

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