Words from Panamá
Most of the country lives in Panamá province, and what gets said in the capital ends up being heard everywhere. This list gathers the words the corpus marks as local rather than national: the ones from the neighborhood, the buses, the office and one specific street. The ones already said countrywide are in the main word index.
6 entries in this list
afroantillano
A descendant of the English- and French-speaking Caribbean laborers (mostly from Barbados, Jamaica, Martinique and Guadeloupe) brought in to build the…
arrabalero
Of the arrabal, the working-class neighborhoods of the historic urban core.
buhonero
A street vendor working sidewalks and corners, especially on Avenida Central and in Calidonia.
capitalino
From Panama City, the capital.
diablo rojo
The traditional Panama City bus: retired American school buses hand-painted with elaborate murals, lights and powerful sound systems.
zonian
A U.S.