Thus, this dialect set the phonemical axis of accentual-tonal transition throughout the American varieties of Spanish,[citation needed] which extends geographically from the northern semi-low intonation of Central American and the Caribbean dialects (since only the European variants of Spanish are particularly low-pitched) to the sharp high intonation characteristic of the lands located south, typical of Peru, Chile, and Argentina.

Other regions in the Coast tend to speak a very similar dialect to the one spoken in the city of Guayaquil, due to its influence, especially in urban areas.

Words such as ñaño (which is used by many to refer to brother or "bro", while ñaña would mean sister) or choclo (corn on the cob) are widely used by people of any ethnicity or social class in this area.

As in the local Quichua (except in Loja), Y is always a semivowel close to i, but LL is a voiced, interdentalic fricative: /ž/ or /ǯ/, similar to Platense Spanish.

Voseo (the substitution of the second-person pronoun tú for vos) is also very common in this region of the country, used only for informal conversations between close friends or relatives.

At the islands, a dialect very similar to the one from Guayaquil is spoken, with no major variations, since it is a very low-populated region if compared to the rest of the country.