Abstract: This dictionary was compiled using a corpus of words from standard general Spanish, and the most common varieties of Spanish in Caribbean countries, i.e., the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Colombia, and Cuba. The dictionary is based on a study of various dictionaries and the general vocabulary used in these countries, and on surveys among scholars and Spanish-speaking people from the abovementioned nations. Words, noun, verb and adverbial phrases, as well as a number of idioms were carefully selected taking into consideration their importance and relevance. This dictionary has 9,000 entries and 22,000 definitions. Each definition includes a sentence to better appreciate the function and precise meaning of the headword and its variants in each country in the region. The Diccionario Escolar del Español Caribeño is a general, synchronic and, to some extent, contrastive dictionary for it includes a long table of different words used in each country to convey the same meaning.
Project director: Eloína Miyares Bermúdez
General Coordinator: Julio Vitelio Ruiz Hernández
Lexicographic team: Eloína Miyares Bermúdez, Nancy Álamo Suárez, Alex Muñoz Alvarado, Leonel Ruiz Miyares, Celia Pérez Marqués and Mileidis Quintana Polanco
Computational linguistics: Leonel Ruiz Miyares and Celia Álvarez Moreno