South American Spanish

American  

[south uh-mer-i-kuhn span-ish] / ˈsaʊθ əˈmɛr ɪ kən ˈspæn ɪʃ /

noun

1. the collective Spanish dialects of South America, as spoken in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay.

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Etymology

Origin of South American Spanish

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

The learned Professor began with characteristic ineptitude to reply in South American Spanish.

From Project Gutenberg

In the collection were newspaper reproductions of the singer's photographs, biographical notices, critical articles relating to the triumphs of the celebrated diva Leonora Brunna—for such was the stage name adopted by Doctor Moreno's daughter—clipping after clipping printed in Castilian or South American Spanish; columns of the clear, close print of English papers; paragraphs on the coarse, thin paper of the French and Italian press; compact masses of Gothic characters, which troubled Rafael's eyes, and unintelligible Russian letters, that, to him, looked like whimsical scrawls of a childish hand.

From Project Gutenberg