Spanish, Loreto-Ucayali
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- Language: Spanish
- Alternate names: Amazonic Spanish, Loreto-Ucayali Spanish, Jungle Spanish, español amazónico, español de la selva
- SIL-code: Ethnologue:spq
- Language family: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Castilian
- Number of speakers: 2,800
- Script: Latin script
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Introduction
Loreto-Ucayali Spanish is a variety of Spanish spoken in the Amazon, especially in the Peruvian Amazon provinces of Loreto and Ucayali. Amazonic Spanish is also spoken in areas of Brazil adjoining Loreto and Ucayali and in the Amazonas Department of Colombia.
