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Uruguay. ISBN. 978-9974-1-0709-0. OCLC. 770376070. The Dictionary of Uruguayan Spanish (Spanish: Diccionario del español del Uruguay, acronym DEU) is an authoritative reference work on the Rioplatense Spanish as spoken in Uruguay. [1] It was published by the National Academy of Uruguay in 2011 as part of the celebrations of the Bicentennial of ...
The Uruguayan accent differs from the accents of Spain and other Spanish American countries, except for Argentina, due to Italian influence. There are many Italian words incorporated in the language (nona, cucha, fainá (" farinata, chickpea flour crêpe"), chapar, parlar, festichola ("house party"), etc.), as well as words of Italian ...
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 ...
Asado (Spanish: [aˈsaðo]) is the technique and the social event of having or attending a barbecue [1] in various South American countries: especially Argentina, Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul), Chile, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay where it is also a traditional event. An asado usually consists of beef, pork, chicken, chorizo, and morcilla; all of ...
[32] [33] On the other hand, in the north-east of the country, the fronteiriço dialect is spoken, a mixture between Uruguayan Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese originated due to cultural exchange between the areas on both sides of the border. [34] English is the most widespread foreign language among the Uruguayan people. [35]
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. While all Spanish dialects adhere to approximately the same written standard, all spoken varieties differ from the written variety, to different ...
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 600 million when including second language ...
Plautdietsch speakers living in Spanish-speaking countries use many Spanish words in daily speech, especially in business and communication (telephone, for instance) vocabulary. Two examples of words that are completely adapted into Mennonite Low German are Burra (Mexican Spanish burro , donkey) and Wratsch (Mexican Spanish huarache , sandal).