Puerto Rican Spanish is the variety of the Spanish language as characteristically spoken in Puerto Rico and by millions of people of Puerto Rican descent living in the United States and elsewhere. It belongs to the group of Caribbean Spanish variants and, as such, is largely derived from Canarian Spanish and Andalusian Spanish. Outside of Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rican accent of Spanish is also commonly heard in the U.S. Virgin Islands and many U.S. mainland cities like Orlando, New York City, Philadelphia, Miami, Tampa, Boston, Cleveland, and Chicago, among others. However, not all stateside Puerto Ricans have knowledge of Spanish. Opposite to island-born Puerto Ricans who primarily speak Spanish, many stateside-born Puerto Ricans primarily speak English, although many stateside Puerto-Ricans are fluent in Spanish and English, and often alternate between the two languages.
Bilingual menu in Luquillo; it includes such Puerto Rican terms as jueyes ("blue land crab", guineo ("banana"), chapín ("cowfish"), carrucho ("conch"), chillo ("Northern red snapper"), habichuela ("black turtle beans"), arepa, mofongo, canoa.
English class for Spanish speakers in Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico, March 1, 1968.
Puerto Ricans, most commonly known as Boricuas, and also referred to as Borinqueños, Borincanos, or Puertorros, are the people of Puerto Rico, the inhabitants and citizens of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and their descendants, including those in mainland United States.
Crowd gathering on a street in Puerto Rico in 1939, photographed by Robert Yarnall Richie
Two men sit by the side of a road with the ocean behind them in Puerto Rico.
José Campeche is the first known Puerto Rican visual artist.
"A Puerto Rican family lives here" sign on a wall in San Juan