Early Modern Spanish
Variety of Spanish used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Early Modern Spanish (also called classical Spanish, Golden Age Spanish or Auric Spanish, especially in literary contexts) is the variant of Spanish used between the end of the fifteenth century and the end of the seventeenth century, marked by a series of phonological and grammatical changes that transformed Old Spanish into Modern Spanish.
Early Modern Spanish | |
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Early Modern Castilian | |
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Pronunciation | [espaˈɲol] [kasteˈʎano][lower-alpha 1] |
Native to | Spain |
Region | Iberian peninsula |
Ethnicity | Spaniards |
Era | 15th–17th century |
Early forms | |
Latin Aljamía (marginal) | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | stan1288 |
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Notable changes from Old Spanish to Early Modern Spanish include: (1) a readjustment of the sibilants (including their devoicing and changes in their place of articulation), (2) the phonemic merger known as yeísmo, (3) the rise of new second-person pronouns, (4) the emergence of the "se lo" construction for the sequence of third-person indirect and direct object pronouns, and (5) new restrictions on the order of clitic pronouns.
Early Modern Spanish corresponds to the period of Spanish colonization of the Americas, and thus it forms the historical basis of all varieties of New World Spanish. Meanwhile, Judaeo-Spanish preserves some archaisms of Old Spanish that disappeared from the rest of the variants, such as the presence of voiced sibilants and the maintenance of the phonemes /ʃ/ and /ʒ/.
Early Modern Spanish, however, was not uniform throughout the Spanish-speaking regions of Spain. Each change has its own chronology and, in some cases, geography. Slightly different pronunciations existed simultaneously. The Spanish spoken in Toledo was taken as the "best" variety and was different from that of Madrid.[3]