Spanish speakers around the world, take heart; you don’t speak incorrectly, just differently. The Real Academia Española (RAE), Spain’s language authority, is finally acknowledging the diversity of grammar and vocabulary among the Spanish language’s nearly 500 million speakers in some 20 countries. The language mavens at the RAE just released a two-volume set detailing the state of grammar in the Spanish language; however, unlike their previous guidelines dating to 1931, this time they’ve gone beyond the borders of Spain to include acceptable grammar usage in other parts of the world. Instead of taking a purely prescriptive approach, the RAE’s new set of grammar books aims to document how the Spanish language is currently being used with indications for what scholars consider proper grammar. The project was 11 years in the making, and the finished tomes span some 4,000 pages. A third volume is due out within the next few months.
Read more information (in Spanish) at Real Academia Española
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I don’t know if this is the right place to inquire, but I can’t seem to find any place else. Pardon my writing in English, but I don’t trust my Spanish. Is it correct to say: de ecuador or must one say del ecuador? I suppose that one would say: de el salvador rather than: del el salvador. And would one say de cuba rather than del cuba? Is regional use involved in this issue? Thanks. Sorry to trouble you.
Hello
Many countries in Latin America and the rest of the word carry an article but many do not. Here is a list of the Latin American countries. Remember to capitalize the country’s name but not the adjectives. You would say:” Miguel es ecuatoriano pero no ya no vive en el Ecuador”
Argentina, la
Bolivia – no article
Brasil, el (brasileño is the adjective – in Portuguese it is brasileiro)
Canada, el (norteamericano)
Chile – no article
Colombia -no article
Costa Rica, no article
Cuba – no article – but Havana, carries an article La Habana – notice the b not v.
Ecuador, el
El Salvador ( includes article) de El Salvador – no contraction.
Guatemala, no article
Honduras, no article
Mexico, no article
Nicaragua, no article
Panama, no article
Paraguay, el
Peru, el
Puerto Rico, no article
Republica Dominicana, la
Uruguay, el
Venezuela, no article
cute! thank you.