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Italian is spoken by more than 1.5 million people in Argentina; it is the second most spoken native language in the nation. [ 9 ] [ b ] Italian immigration , which effectively began in the middle of the 19th century and reached its peak in the first two decades of the 20th century, made a lasting and significant impact on the pronunciation and ...
Approximate area of Rioplatense Spanish (Patagonian variants included). Rioplatense Spanish (/ ˌ r iː oʊ p l ə ˈ t ɛ n s eɪ / REE-oh-plə-TEN-say, Spanish: [ri.oplaˈtense]), also known as Rioplatense Castilian, [4] or River Plate Spanish, [5] is a variety of Spanish [6] [7] [8] originating in and around the Río de la Plata Basin, and now spoken throughout most of Argentina and Uruguay ...
Dialects of Spanish spoken in Argentina. 5 varieties of Spanish spoken in Peru. Spanish dialects in Colombia. Spanish dialects spoken in Venezuela. Some of the regional varieties of the Spanish language are quite divergent from one another, especially in pronunciation and vocabulary, and less so in grammar.
The majority of Colombians speak Spanish (see also Colombian Spanish), but in total 90 languages are listed for Colombia in the Ethnologue database. The specific number of spoken languages varies slightly since some authors consider as different languages what others consider to be varieties or dialects of the same language.
American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1. Censabella, Marisa (1999). Las lenguas indígenas de la Argentina. Una mirada actual. Buenos Aires: Eudeba. ISBN 950-23-0956-1; Fabre, Alain (1998). Manual de las lenguas indígenas sudamericanas, Vol. II. Munich ...
Spanish is the official language in most Hispanic American countries, and it is spoken by the vast majority of the population. Native American languages are widely spoken in Chile , Peru , Guatemala , Bolivia , Paraguay and Mexico , and, to a lesser degree, in Panama , Ecuador , Colombia , and Venezuela .
In Spanish grammar, voseo (Spanish pronunciation:) is the use of vos as a second-person singular pronoun, along with its associated verbal forms, in certain regions where the language is spoken. In those regions it replaces tuteo , i.e. the use of the pronoun tú and its verbal forms.
Buenos Aires (/ ˌ b w eɪ n ə s ˈ ɛər iː z / or /-ˈ aɪ r ɪ s /; [12] Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbwenos ˈajɾes] ⓘ) [13] [a] is the capital city of Argentina, on the western shore of the Río de la Plata on South America's southeastern coast. "Buenos aires" is Spanish for "fair winds" or "good airs".