Why do people from Spain speak with a lisp?

Why do people from #Spain speak #Spanish with a "lisp" and Latin Americans don't? It has to do with Southern Spain and the conquest of the Americas.

[SuperSayajim]

Whether or not its a lisp, we can all agree thats it's very irritating on the ears, and it makes a lot of sense that other spanish speaking countries don't do it.

[wepzuk]

It is definitely a lisp. Latin American Spanish is million times better sounding.

[carlozcabrera]

As a Mexican with a lisp . I can attest that my family are Spanish descendants who loved that kings lisp and helped spread it through our Sinaloa.

[saturdayboy]

It was not the original pronunciation, the original was "platza" sounding as in Italian "piazza", which evolved to "platha" in northern Spain and "plasa" in southern spain

[weareone]

Spain says it’s not a lisp. The rest of the world “it’s a lisp”

[euromayan]

In 1492 the sephardic jews were thrown out of iberia, they still speak castilian today without the lisp sound, so most likely that sound came in europe after columbus. In english the 'th' sound disappeared, old pronunciation was replaced with 'S' (doeth, hath )

[darkhorse]

The interwebs keep saying a Spanish King with a real lisp starting is a just a ‘myth’ or it’s been ‘debunked’ …all without providing any legitimate reason!
…Ive spoken to many people from both Spain and South American nations and contrary to what I keep hearing on the internet I’ve NEVER heard a South American ‘lisp’ in Spanish! Think about that!

[Don_Puparo]

nice try! 
BUT....cerveza is a perfect example of "lets be different cause its cool" . first of all, its not just the "ce" that's wrongly pronounced ( u read that well indeed), also the V which for some reason the majority of Spain pronounces it as a B! now touching the reason why in South America they don't use the ridiculous pronunciation of "th th th th", I would say its still fairly OPEN DEBATE.
The king story is a long shot( but does make sense somehow).
The Sevilla version, again is a very long shot. we won't know unless we travel in time.
P.S. its not a lisp per se, but SOUNDS like a lisp! ( its like painting a horse exactly like a zebra: its not a zebra per se, but it LOOKS exactly like a zebra)

[DiazFelix]

Sometimes the diference is important:
concejo = council
consejo = advice

[piofernandezlopez]

Just the freaking 'th' sound.
Nothing else.

[zoren]

Sounds like "okayzzz" "hellozzz"

[sgonzo]

You still didnt answer why they have a lisp. If southern spanish dont have a lisp. It means when spain invaded southern spain from north ( reconquista) they didnt have a lisp

[ukishnzer]

But the south of spain has MORE of the TH sound???

[jamesofallthings]

Actually it is a lisp. Call it whatever you want, but it's a lisp. I completely ignore the stupid lisp and it still gives me 100%. I'll never talk like that. It sounds ridiculous.

[Race]

The "TH" sound never really traveled there?!?!?!? Bull$h!t.
I live in Puerto Rico and nearly every consonant is supplanted by TH.
The town of Aguadilla is pronounced - ah-gWah-thee-ah.
The "D" is not European, the double "L" is a - yah - sound, same in the Mexican Tortilla.

[rominiyi]

It is a lisp from the Spanish branch of the Habsburg dynasty as in most European languages the letters Z and C have specific (or alternate) sounds which are entirely different from T, of which the uncommon theta sound Th is related to.

Even stretching the imagination on an intercontinental scale will not result in the alternate pronounciatins of C and Z becoming Th.

The English theta sound Th is a consonant clustre ... not a consonant.

Their is nothing natural at all about the "Spanish Lisp".

The fact that not all Spanish at the time chose to adopt it, so much so that most Spanish dialects in the Americas did not import it just adds additional weight to the argument that it is indeed a lisp.

If that sound existed naturally in Spain everyone there would be pronouncing Z and Ci/Ce as Th!

[varadero]

Is not a lisp .. Spaniards pronounce any C or S like a Z . It is a Z pronunciation what you hear

[flagshipbowtie]

Russian here. Commence chill it out. The Spanish speak with a lisp so do the English. We don't have such ridiculous sounds.

[darkhorse]

Everyone says this has been debunked without providing any legitimate reason!

[hectorelmexican]

False....they were trying toale their king feel better by copying his lisp it's annoying as hell🤕🤕🤕🤕