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The Caro and Cuervo Institute in Bogotá is the main institution in Colombia to promote the scholarly study of the language and literature of both Colombia and the rest of Spanish America. The educated speech of Bogotá, a generally conservative variety of Spanish, has high popular prestige among Spanish-speakers throughout the Americas.
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.
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. While all Spanish dialects adhere to approximately the same written standard, all spoken varieties differ from the ...
Llanero Spanish suppresses or weakens the final "-s" of plural nouns (e.g., los antioqueño, loj perro, cuatronarice (cuatronarices is a local snake species), loj padrino. Llanero Spanish also has a similar nominal composition to costeño dialects, e.g., pativoltiao (pata + volteado ie noun + adjective).
The population of the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina uses three languages: Creole, English and Spanish. [4] [5] San Andrés–Providencia Creole is an official language in its territory of influence, according to the Colombian Constitution of 1991 which guarantees the rights and protections of languages in the country. [4]
Spanish dialects in Colombia (the sub-dialects of the Equatorial Spanish are represented in two colors). Equatorial Spanish , also called Coastal Colombian-Ecuadorian dialect or Chocoano , is a dialect of Spanish spoken mainly in the coastal region of Ecuador , as well as in the bordering coastal areas of northern Peru and western Colombia .
The Spanish language in South America varies within the different countries and regions of the continent. The term "South American Spanish" (Spanish: español sudamericano or español suramericano) is sometimes used as a broad name for the dialects of Spanish spoken on the continent, but such a term is only geographical and has little or no linguistic relevance.
The academy is the oldest of all the Latin American Spanish language academies, the first official academy founded outside Spain. [2] It was founded in 1871 by a group of writers and philology specialists, including Jose Maria Vergara y Vergara, Manuel María Mallarino; Rufino José Cuervo, the father of Hispanic-American philology; and Miguel Antonio Caro.