Spanish
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- Language: Spanish
- Alternate names: Amazonic Spanish, Loreto-Ucayali Spanish, Jungle Spanish, español amazónico, español de la selva
- Language code: spq
- Language family: Indo-European, Classical Indo-European, Italic, Latino-Faliscan, Latinic, Imperial Latin, Romance, Italo-Western Romance, Western Romance, Shifted Western Romance, Southwestern Shifted Romance, West Ibero-Romance, Castilic, South Castilic
- Number of speakers: 2800
- 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.