Wiktionary:Spanish pronunciation

Note 1: This guide is intended to provide guidelines for Pronunciation sections in Spanish entries on the English Wiktionary. The main guidelines for Pronunciation section in the English Wiktionary is set forth in Pronunciation; this page is an addition to that page, not a replacement.

Note 2: If a change occurs in Pronunciation that affects Spanish entries, then that change should be reflected here.

Dialects
From the standpoint of phonemic distinction, there are only a few major variations in Spanish. For Spanish terms with different phonemes in different regions, the following accent tags can be used to clarify the major variation of Spanish to which a phonemic transcription applies:
 * : Standard Spanish and many variations maintain a distinction of (written &lt;ll>) and  (written &lt;y> or &lt;i(Vowel)>).
 * : Many Spanish variations, including most in Latin America lack, merging &lt;ll> into.
 * : Standard Spanish and many variations maintain a distinction of (written &lt;z> and &lt;c(e/i)>) and /s/ (written &lt;s>).
 * : The Spanish variations in Latin America and in some regions of Spain lack, merging &lt;z> and &lt;c(e/i)> into /s/.
 * : Spanish variations in parts of Andalucia and the vicinity merge &lt;s> into.
 * : Standard Spanish, the prestige dialect of Spain, is a lleísmo variation (contrasting with ) with the ceseo distinction (also contrasting  with /s/).

Dialects of Spanish with unique variations in pronunciation (e.g., of coda /s/ as [h] or ) may be shown using phonetic transcriptions. The following accent tags can be used with those phonetic transcriptions to distinguish between Spanish dialects:
 * Spain:, , , ...
 * Latin America:, , , , , , , ...