This is a particular dialect/variety in the Amazon jungle area amongst Spanish speakers in predominantly the Peruvian regions Loreto y Ucayali as well as their neighboring regions Brazil and Colombia. It is heavily influenced by the native languages (such as Quechua) spoken in the jungle.
It is expressed only PHONETICALLY - no written form nor formal speech - entirely informal. Here are some phonetical features:
- Change in the Spanish j (aspirated) by the /f/ (always bilabial):
>>> San Juan --> /san.fan/
- Some vowels are ommitted:
>>> Jueves --> /fe.evs/
- Weakening sound of gu- aspirated with the /w/ sound: (Just like in México?)
>>> guante --> /w.an.te/
- Alophonic use (w/o semantic implication) of lengthened vowels
>>> de --> /dee/
- Intermediate sounds /b/ /d/ /g/ are hardened in tonal rising aspirating and lengthening vowel. (How?)
- The phenonmes /p/ /t/ /k/ are ASPIRATED at the beginning of the word.
- The y tends to be a fricative (on the contrary to what happens on the coast).
There are some changes in morpho-syntax features:
- Unlike standard spanish, personal names and many pronouns are prefixed with definite articles (El, La, Los, Las):
>>> El Juan, El Miguel, La Sonia, etc (¡Muy extraño sea paso!)
- Possessive forms are expressed in different construction compared to standard Spanish. Instead of saying la casa de Lorena, they say de la Lorena su casa.
