Despite its extinction in Nicaragua, words of Nahuatl and Nawat origin can be seen and heard in daily Nicaraguan speech and literature.

[6][7] Nicaragua has the highest frequency, among Central American countries, of the use of voseo—use of the pronoun vos and its verb forms for the familiar second-person singular ("you"), in place of the tú of Standard Spanish.

In this regard it is similar to the usage of Argentina and Uruguay in the Río de la Plata region of South America.

It shares later developments of Andalusian Spanish with that of Cuba, the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean/coastal regions of Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Puerto Rico.

Notable characteristics of Nicaraguan phonology include the following: Vos is the predominant second person singular pronoun used by most speakers in familiar or informal contexts to address people in the same age group.

A number of words widely used in Nicaragua which have Nahuatl, Chibcha or other native origins, in particular names for flora, fauna and toponyms.