Welcome to the original Spanish linguistics website
On this website you can find information and analysis on the 
following subjects:
- the pronunciation of standard European Spanish
- variation in the Spanish-speaking world
- aspects of Spanish syntax
- the history of Spanish
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The site was created in 1999 by Ian Mackenzie for Newcastle University students enrolled on the courses SPA2019 (World Spanish), SPA4007 (Spanish and Romance Word Analysis) or SML1019 (Introduction to linguistics). Over time, however, it has come to be used by people from all over the world and from a wide variety of backgrounds (not just academic). The material on these pages is regularly expanded and revised, so the best citation format is the one shown below:
Mackenzie, Ian. 1999–2022. The Linguistics of Spanish. http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/i.e.mackenzie/index.html (homepage). Date consulted.