What is Cuban Spanish?
{{Infobox language |name = Cuban Spanish |nativename = Español Cubano |speakers = {{sigfig|11.4|2}} million |date=2011 |ref=<ref>{{e18|spa|Spanish (Cuba)}}</ref> |script = [[Latin script|Latin]] ([[Spanish alphabet]]) |familycolor = Indo-European |fam2 = [[Italic languages|Italic]] |fam3 = [[Romance languages|Romance]] |fam4 = [[Western Romance languages|Western]] |fam5 = [[Ibero-Romance languages|Ibero-Romance]] |fam6 = [[West Iberian languages|West Iberian]] |fam7 = Spanish |isoexception=dialect |glotto=none |ietf=es-CU |notice=IPA }} '''Cuban Spanish''' is a [[dialect]] of the [[Spanish language]]. It is the dialect spoken in [[Cuba]]. It shares many of the same features as other [[Caribbean]] dialects of Spanish. Much of Cuban Spanish derives from the Spanish spoken in the [[Canary Islands]] of [[Spain]]. This is because large numbers of Canarian people moved to Cuba in the 19th and early 20th centuries. People from other Spanish communities, such as [[Galicia]]ns, [[Catalonia|Catalans]], [[Basque people|Basque]]s and [[Asturias|Asturians]], also moved here, but did not have as much influence on the language as the Canarians did. Many words in Cuban Spanish come from the Canarian dialect, but some words are from other parts of Spain. There are also words that come from [[West Africa]]n languages, [[French language|French]], or from the [[Indigenous people|indigenous]] [[Taíno]] language. The language is spoken differently from east to west. The eastern part of the island had large [[plantation]]s where many [[African slave trade|African slaves]] worked during the 18th and 19th centuries. Therefore, the east has a stronger influence from [[Languages of Africa|African languages]] (such as [[Yoruba language|Yoruba]] and [[Kikongo]]) than the west. It is closer to [[Dominican Spanish]] than to the Spanish spoken in the western part of the island. The [[Haitian Creole language]] influenced the eastern Cuban culture after the [[Haiti