Who speaks Rioplatense?
| Uruguayan Spanish | |
|---|---|
| Español uruguayo | |
| Native to | Uruguay |
| Region | Rioplatense Spanish |
| Native speakers | 3,347,800, all users in Uruguay (2014) L1 users: 3,270,000 L2 users: 77,800 |
What language does Argentina speak?
Spanish
Argentina/Official languages
While Argentina’s official language is Spanish, Argentina has enjoyed so much international migration that Arabic, Italian, German, English, and French are also spoken—at least in pockets throughout the country. There are also over one million speakers of various tribal languages, including Quecha and Guaraní.
What are some of the features of Rioplatense Spanish?
Rioplatense Spanish is peppered with numerous words and phrases from the colorful slang known as Lunfardo. One of the features of Lunfardo is the use of vesre, a form of wordplay that reverses the order of syllables in a word [Example: café → feca (coffee)].
What does seseo stand for in Rioplatense Spanish?
As in most American dialects, also, Rioplatense Spanish has seseo ( /θ/ and /s/ are not distinguished). That is, casa (“house”) is homophonous with caza (“hunt”). Seseo is common to other dialects of Spanish in Latin America, Canarian Spanish, Andalusian Spanish.
Can a native speaker of Spanish speak Rioplatense?
Generally, native speakers of Spanish who were raised in Uruguay or the majority of Argentina are assumed to speak Rioplatense (at least informally) just as, for instance, Americans would be assumed to speak American English, rather than any other variety of English.
What’s the difference between X and H in Rioplatense?
Rioplatense speakers always realize it as [x], like people in Northern and Central Spain. Rioplatense speakers never realize it as [h] instead of [x], but [h] is a possible phonetic realization of /s/ when it is followed by two or more consonants or at the end of a phrase; it can be a free variation between [x] and [h].