The only official language is Spanish. There are two main accents native to Costa Rica, the standard Costa Rican and the Nicoyan. The Nicoyan accent is very similar to the standard Nicaraguan accent due, in part, to its vicinity. A notable Costa Rican pronunciation difference includes a soft initial and double [r] phoneme that is not trilled as is normal in the Spanish speaking world.
A peculiarity of the Spanish in Costa Rica is the relative lack of the use of the pronoun tú, which is considered rather pedantic by native Ticos. Instead, Costa Ricans use vos or usted.
The conjugation of vos in Costa Rica (or in Central America and parts of Colombia for that matter) is practically the same as in Argentina, with the exception of the subjunctive forms.
Jamaican immigrants in the 19th Century brought with them a dialect of English that has evolved into the Mekatelyu creole dialect.
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