Honduran Spanish

Phonology

• Honduran Spanish, as a Central American variety, pronounces the fricative, written with or, as a simple aspiration.
• is at times elided in contact with front vowels.
• Word-final becomes velarized, as.
• 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. S-reduction is most common in the north of Honduras. It is less common in areas of Copán Department near the Guatemalan border, in Comayagua, and among the upper classes of Tegucigalpa.

Local words