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Andalusian represents a wide range of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia regional linguistic varieties, from which I focused on the speech in the Granada province. Having first introduced the very definition of the term "Andalusian", I subsequently clarified the notional linguistic divison of Andalusia into the western and eastern region represented by Granada. In the context of Andalusian, my aim was to characterize the Granada variety of Spanish from three points of view - phonetic-phonological, lexical and morphosyntactic, placing the greatest emphasis on the first two aspects, for the uniqueness of the variant lies primarily in its sound and vocabulary. Regarding specific linguistic phenomena of the phonetic level, this study deals with the vocal system (openness of vocals), a much-discussed topic throughout the Spanish-speaking world - ceceo, seseo and yeísmo, as well as various types of aspirations, neutralization of the -l/-r consonants, loss of the -d-, -g-, -r- intervocalic consonants and fricative pronunciation of the - ch palatal consonant. As for the vocabulary, a result of diverse cultures in Andalusia proliferating, it was elaborated on according to its division into several following categories: Occidentalisms, Orientalisms, archaisms, Arabisms, Gitanisms and diminutives. In contrast to... |