Locale Es Pr
Use when working with the Spanish (Puerto Rico) locale (`es-PR`) — its endonym Español (Puerto Rico), Latin script, left-to-right (LTR) direction, or spoken-population data. Reference data and translation guidance (register, grammar, idiom, typography) for this specific locale; see [[locale]] for general i18n/l10n concepts (BCP 47, plural rules, RTL) that apply across all locales.
Reference data for the Spanish (Puerto Rico) locale — endonym Español (Puerto Rico), written in the Latin script, left-to-right (LTR).
Identifiers
- BCP 47 tag:
es-PR - ISO 639-1:
es - ISO 639-3:
spa - Script: Latn (Latin)
- Region: PR (Puerto Rico)
- Text direction: ltr — left-to-right (LTR)
Speakers (approximate)
- L1 (native): 3,000,000
- L2 (additional): 150,000
- L1+L2 (total): 3,150,000
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 Puerto Rican-specific points.
- Address: "tú" is the informal singular and "usted" is formal; plural is "ustedes".
- Vocabulary: Puerto Rican Spanish has many English loanwords because of US ties ("parquear", "troca", "janguear"); these are spoken-level and should not appear in standard text where a Spanish term exists ("estacionar", "camioneta").
- Currency and formats: the US dollar; decimal point and comma thousands separator per CLDR
es-PR. - Names: keep local names such as "Boricua" as cultural terms and do not translate them.
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)