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The Republic of Argentina has not established, legally, an official language; however, Spanish has been utilized since the founding of the Argentine state by the administration of the Republic and is used in education in all public establishments, so much so that in basic and secondary levels there is a mandatory subject of Spanish (a subject called "language").
The description of the region by the word Argentina has been found on a Venetian map in 1536. [25] In English, the name Argentina comes from the Spanish language; however, the naming itself is not Spanish, but Italian. Argentina (masculine argentino) means in Italian ' (made) of silver, silver coloured', derived from the Latin argentum for silver.
No evidence of the language has survived. Yaghan, Yámana, Háusi-Kúta or Yagán is a language spoken by indigenous peoples of southern shores and islands of Tierra del Fuego. A very analytical language, it had an extensive vocabulary. In Argentina Yaghan became extinct at the beginning of the 20th century, but lexicons and early recordings ...
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 ...
The official language of Argentina is Spanish, and it is spoken by practically the entire population in several different accents. [citation needed] The most common variation of Spanish in Argentina is the Rioplatense Spanish (Spanish: castellano rioplatense), and it is so named because it evolved in the central areas around the Río de la ...
The Chaná language [3] (autoglossonym: Lanték, meaning "speak" or "language"; from lan, "tongue" and tek, a communicative suffix) [4] is one of the Charruan languages spoken by the Chaná people in what is now Argentina and Uruguay along the Uruguay and Paraná Rivers on the margins of the Río de la Plata.
According to the Argentine Census in 2010, 13,936 people identified as first-generation Atacameño in Argentina. In the past they spoke a language known as Kunza, to day the Kunza language is an isolate extinct language once spoken Chile, Argentina and Bolivia who have since shifted to Spanish and Quechua, to a lesser extent. The last speaker ...
List of indigenous languages of Argentina. Lule–Vilela languages. Lunfardo.