Category
page 1Languages of Uruguay
Spanish
Romance language originating in the Iberian Peninsula
Portuguese
Western Romance language
Plautdietsch
Plautdietsch () or Mennonite Low German is a Low Prussian dialect of East Low German with Dutch influence that developed in the 16th and 17th centuries in the Vistula delta area of Royal Prussia. The word Plautdietsch translates to "flat (or low) German" (referring to the plains of northern Germany). In other Low German dialects, the word for Low German is usually realised as Plattdütsch/Plattdüütsch or Plattdüütsk , – very often also as Plattdeutsch – but the spelling Plautdietsch is used to refer specifically to the Vistula variant of the language.
Portuñol
Portuñol (Spanish spelling) or Portunhol (Portuguese spelling) () is a portmanteau of the words portugués/português ("Portuguese") and español/espanhol ("Spanish"), and is the name often given to any non-systematic mixture of Portuguese and Spanish (this sense should not be confused with the dialects of the Portuguese language spoken in northern Uruguay by the Brazilian border, known by several names, among them Portuñol). Close examination reveals it to be "a polyvalent term (portuñol/portunhol) used to describe a wide range of phenomena, including spontaneous contact vernaculars in border re
Rioplatense Spanish
variant of Spanish spoken in Argentina and Uruguay
Lunfardo
thumb|right|The word chorros (Lunfardo term meaning "thieves") graffitied on the wall of a BNL bank in [[Buenos Aires, during protests against Corralito, 2002]]
Uruguayan Sign Language
Uruguay's official sign language for deaf people
Charruan
language family of South America
Uruguayan Spanish
Spanish variety of Uruguay
Uruguayan Portuguese
Portuguese dialect spoken in Uruguay
Chaná
language belonging to the Charruan language family