Distribution of Spanish speakers regarding 's' and 'c' pronunciation

Question

We know that following groups of syllables

can be pronunced in 3 different ways:

Context	distinción	seseo	ceceo
"s" + vowel	/s/	/s/	/θ/
"c/z" + vowel	/θ/	/s/	/θ/

The question is: approximately how many people in Spain use each of these pronunciations?

I don't ask for Latin America because I know they use "seseo".

This appears to be nearly the same question as How is the letter 's' pronounced in Spain?. As that one is older and has more answers, I'm closing this is favor of that—but please feel free to add the details from this question there. — Dori, Nov 16 '11 at 00:06
@Dori I'm not asking the same thing and this is much more detailed (for ex. I'm not talking only about 's'). Anyway you have the chance to merge the 2 questions and their answers as an admin. — bluish, Nov 18 '11 at 07:54
The other question is extremely confusingly named, and posed. Without a bunch of fixing I don't think it makes a good "master" question to redirect other closed dupes to in its current state. — hippietrail, Dec 02 '11 at 12:16
The other question asks about 's' in Spain, it does not worry about the pronounciation of z/c. These are very different questions. — user0721090601, Jun 23 '14 at 04:52

jacobo · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-30T13:24:42.053

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The images in this wikipedia page outline the areas of the Spanish speaking world which have predominance of seseo / ceceo / distinción:

edited Jan 30 '21 at 13:24

answered Dec 15 '17 at 22:52

jacobo

¿Y cuáles áreas tiene qué forma de hablar? Es mejor resumir el contenido de los enlaces. Además, ¿qué nos cuentas del español africano? – user0721090601 Dec 16 '17 at 18:09
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He insertado las imágenes en el comentario. El español africano se detalla en la primera imagen. – jacobo Dec 20 '17 at 17:14

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 20 '17 at 07:43

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Seseo - used entirely in the Canary Islands and rarely in Andalusia.

Ceceo - can be often found in western and southern Andalusia.

You can safely say that in the rest of the Spain speakers have distinción:

edited Dec 20 '17 at 07:43

jacobo

answered Nov 15 '11 at 22:24

deprecated

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"Correctly" distinguished? What makes one way correct over another? – Richard Nov 16 '11 at 17:51
I meant: they pronounce each sound as it is supposed to be: θ for c/z, s for s. – deprecated Nov 16 '11 at 18:34
This seems to answer a specific question I also wanted to ask that doesn't seem to be clearly addressed in the so-called duplicate. – hippietrail Dec 02 '11 at 12:37
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Note that seseo exists in Galicia in some parts as well – user0721090601 Dec 20 '17 at 11:06

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