Re: Chilean Spanish

On 2024-03-10 14:00:05 +0000, Christian Weisgerber said:

On 2024-03-10, Ruud Harmsen <rh@rudhar.com> wrote:
 

Coda /s/ is debuccalized to [h] or even deleted completely.

 That's not typical of Chile. It also happens in Argentinian, Cuban and
Andalusian Spanish. And propably a lot of other too.

 I haven't noticed it before to this degree in media Spanish.
(I still need to watch something from Argentinia.)
 Of course media portrayals are to be taken with a grain of salt and
may not be representative of how people actually speak.

That's very evident in Marseilles (where I live). Plus Belle la Vie has been a very successful series, supposedly set in Marseilles. Although I've never watched it systematically I often catch snippets while waiting for other programmes to start. Not a single character speaks with a Marseilles accent, though it's not a difficult accent to understand. Many of them also have blue eyes, which are rare here in reality.
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Athel cb