Locale Es Do

Reference data for the Spanish (Dominican Republic) locale — endonym Español (República Dominicana), written in the Latin script, left-to-right (LTR).

Identifiers

• BCP 47 tag: es-DO
• ISO 639-1: es
• ISO 639-3: spa
• Script: Latn (Latin)
• Region: DO (Dominican Republic)
• Text direction: ltr — left-to-right (LTR)

Speakers (approximate)

• L1 (native): 10,800,000
• L2 (additional): 300,000
• L1+L2 (total): 11,100,000

Base locale

This is a regional variant of Locale Es 001 (Spanish), the base/macro locale for this language.

Pluralization

CLDR plural categories for this locale: one, many, other (3 forms).

• one — n = 1 (e.g. 1)
• many — e = 0 and i != 0 and i % 1000000 = 0 and v = 0 or e != 0..5 (e.g. 1000000, …)
• other — everything else (e.g. 0, 2~16, 100, 1000, …)

See Unicode Messageformat for writing plural messages using these categories.

Translating into this locale

Start from the general Spanish guidance in Locale Es 419 (grammar, register, and typography) and apply the following Dominican-specific points.

• Address: "tú" is the usual informal form, "usted" for formal text; the plural is "ustedes".
• Pronunciation versus writing: the dropping of final "s" and the swapping of "r" and "l" are spoken features and must not be written into standard text.
• Vocabulary: Caribbean usage such as "guagua" (bus) is regional and may confuse readers elsewhere; use standard words when the audience is broader.
• Formats: peso dominicano (symbol "RD$"); use CLDR data for es-DO number and date formats.

Common pitfalls

• Using the address form, vocabulary, or number format of another region; confirm each against the target country.
• Writing spoken slang or dialect spellings in standard text.
• The general pitfalls in Locale Es 001 (word order, capitalization, false friends, and agreement) also apply here.

Learn more

• Locale for BCP 47 identifiers, locale-sensitive formatting, pluralization, and text-direction concepts that apply across all locales.
• Unicode Messageformat for writing plural/selection messages correctly for this locale's grammar.
• Real Academia Española and ASALE, Diccionario panhispánico de dudas and Ortografía de la lengua española (2010), https://www.rae.es
• Unicode CLDR locale data for number, date, and currency formats of each Spanish region (https://cldr.unicode.org)