The communities located on the Caribbean coast also have access to education in their native languages.

In Nicaragua the voseo form is common, just as in other countries in Central and South America such as Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, coastal parts of Colombia, Honduras or Paraguay.

Some characteristics of Nicaraguan phonology include: English is spoken among expatriates from the United States and Canada, and widely used by the tourism sector.

On the Caribbean coast, due to the African and English heritage of residents of places like Bluefields, Pearl Lagoon and the Corn Islands, an English creole is spoken by the majority of the population, coexisting with indigenous languages.

[3] The fieldwork for the first dictionary of Rama was done during this time by Robin Schneider, a graduate student from the University of Berlin.

Minority languages include Chinese, Arabic, German, Italian among others.

[7] In the Monimbo neighborhood of the city of Masaya, there are many Chorotega natives but the language that they speak is Spanish.

In 1925, Edward Sapir wrote an article based on scant evidence arguing for the inclusion of Subtiaba in his hypothesized Hokan languages group.