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The rest of the Spanish-speaking world is unaware, too. I am foreigner who learned Spanish of Spain, and when traveling in Latin America the locals have often m
by Mediterraneo10 6y ago
The rest of the Spanish-speaking world is unaware, too. I am foreigner who learned Spanish of Spain, and when traveling in Latin America the locals have often made fun of me for using the vosotros form of verbs. "There are umpteen Spanish-speaking countries, and only one says vosotros," they'd say.
"Not true!" I would try to defend myself. "They use vosotros in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea, too!" (On my first visit to WS in the early millennium I met many older Saharawis who spoke excellent Spanish as if they had grown up in mainland Spain, though now that demographic must be elderly or already passed away.)
- iagovar 6y agoMy guess is that because E. Guinea wasn't given much attention until very late in the colonial Spain, it didn't really leave much footprint in the spanish society. Anyway, there are some documentaries about it in the Internet (in Spanish), also from La 1. IIRC they had some ecuatorial guineans in the comment sections with interesting insight. I also follow https://twitter.com/ccemalabo/ https://twitter.com/ccemalabo/ so it appears in my feed from time to time, and refreshes my curiosity.
- stevenjohns 6y agoThey use vosotros in Colombia as well, specifically in Medellín and a couple of other places in the "coffee axis," i.e as far out as Manizales.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoDo you have some kind of citation to back that up? The only information I can find says that Colombia uses vos (like several other regions in Latin America) and not vosotros.
- rigoleto 6y agoVos, not vosotros