Rrrramon previously said:

Yeah and I've also met Dominicans who replace their R's with L's like Puerto Ricans do, which region of the DR are they from?

Hablar cibaeño:------Idioma Portugués:

Noite (norte)-----------Noite (noche)
Aimario (armario)----- Madeira (madera)
Aite (arte) -------------Caipirinha (bebida brasileña)
Paimera (palmera)---- Praia (playa)
Peisona (persona)----- Bandeira (bandera)
Peidón (perdón)------- Feira (feria)
Sei (ser)--------------- Sei ( sé )
Aito (alto)------------- Cadeira (silla)
Poique (porque)------- Manteiga (mantequilla)
Muita (multa]---------- Muito (mucho)
Queréi (querei)-------- Leite (leche)
Caitera (cartera)...

HateroPardo previously said:

. When this pronunciation comes up I personally always remember this article which makes a connection to the Portuguese. I know in my corner of Santiago province Taveras and variations of that name are common...and my understanding is that theses last names are potentially of Portuguese origin. So anecdotally speaking I think it is possible this article is on the right track.

http://orbe15.blogspot.com/2008/10/posible-origen-portugus-de-la-i-cibaea.html

On a funny side note though I'm a city boy through and through, though I grew up almost entirely stateside, and though I pride myself on writing and speaking better English than most, I myself speak this way in Spanish because my parents speak this way. I have to watch my tongue closely when I want to hide it



I'm sure some of our other knowledgeable posters can bring info about the possible connection to Canary Islanders, however the linked article is the most in depth discussion I have come across of this i.

cibaeño75 previously said:



Interesting article on the possible poruguese connection to the cibaeño pronunciation...but it has several holes...for starters the author notes that is no iberian dialect save portuguese featuring the "i" substituted for certain consonants. This is false for in the Panocho dialect of Murcia one comes across this very devise. The author all to conveniently dismisses the possibility of a taino origin for the cibaeño pronunciation without taking into account that the jibaros of neighboring Puerto Rico also employed the "i" in place of the Spanish "l" and "r" up until the 19th century, bolstering a possible taino origin for said device but also bolstering a canary islander origin. Also, the author fails to mention the very influence that the Portuguese and Galicians have had on the Canary Islands themselves, the Portugues at one point being more numerous on said islands than castilians during the initial phases of Iberian conquest of said islands and as such there might indeed be a Portuguese influence on cibaeño pronunciation albeit by a different conduit than that suggested by the author. Regardless, interesting hypothesis.