Argentinien-schwizertütsch ( es, alemán suizo de Argentina) is a dialect of
Swiss German
Swiss German (Standard German: , gsw, Schwiizerdütsch, Schwyzerdütsch, Schwiizertüütsch, Schwizertitsch Mundart,Because of the many different dialects, and because there is no defined orthography for any of them, many different spelling ...
. Argentinien-schwizertütsch is spoken by persons of Swiss origin. Most speakers live in
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest ...
, being the descendants of 19th-century
immigrants from
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
.
See also
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Swiss Argentine
Swiss Argentines are Argentine citizens of Swiss ancestry or people who emigrated from Switzerland and reside in Argentina. The Swiss Argentine community is the largest group of the Swiss diaspora in South America.
Approximately 44,000 Swiss emi ...
References
External links
PDF on varieties of German (''5=INDO-EUROPEAN phylosector''; 1999)
Swiss German language
German dialects
Languages of Argentina
German-Argentine culture
Swiss-Argentine culture
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