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The Colonia Tovar dialect, or Alemán Coloniero, is a dialect that is spoken in Colonia Tovar, Venezuela, and belongs to the Low Alemannic branch of German.

Colonia Tovar
Alemán Coloniero
Deutsch Schwarzwald
Native to	Venezuela
Native speakers	1,500 (2009)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Irminonic High German Upper German Alemannic Low Alemannic Colonia Tovar
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gct
Glottolog	colo1254
IETF	gct[2]

Characteristics

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The dialect, like other Alemannic dialects, is not mutually intelligible with Standard German. It is spoken by descendants of Germans from the Black Forest region of southern Baden, who emigrated to Venezuela in 1843. Most speakers also speak Spanish, and the dialect has both acquired Spanish loanwords and influenced Venezuelan Spanish.^{[citation needed]}

History

Until 1942, when Colonia Tovar was declared a municipality, most of its residents above the age of 15 were fluent in German, being unable to converse or understand Spanish, owing to the town's isolation. In World War II, Venezuela declared war on Germany, and so German classes in Colonia Tovar were banned. The town became connected with the rest of the country and so people began to converse in Spanish, which has led to the dialect's decline.

Despite attempts to use German as the language of instruction, the state has not given local schools permission to teach in bilingual classes and so only private tutors were allowed to instruct in the Colonia Tovar dialect and in Standard German.

References

Literature

• Blanco Hernández, Marlene: Introducción al analisis gramatical del Aleman de la Colonia Tovar. Universidad Central de Venezuela. Caracas 1987.
• Redlich Perkins, Renate: Tovar German. Linguistic study of a German century alemannic dialect spoken in Venezuela. University Microfilms International. Ann Arbor, Michigan, London 1978.
• Da Rin, Denise: Die deutsche Sprache in der Colonia Tovar (Venezuela) - Eine soziolinguistische Untersuchung. München 1995.
• Kanzler, Samuel Briceño: La Colonia Tovar y su gente. Tovar, o. J. (Title in German translation: Die Colonia Tovar und ihre Menschen).

External links

• Informationen über Colonia Tovar bei www.venezuelatuya.com
• (in German) Information on Colonia Tovar bei www.margaritainfo.com
• (in German) Report on the village of Colonia Tovar. People speak there a special german slang "alemannisch"
• (in Spanish) Website of Colonia Tovar

На других языках

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[de] Alemán Coloniero

Alemán Coloniero ist ein niederalemannischer Dialekt des Deutschen, welcher hauptsächlich in der Gemeinde Colonia Tovar in Venezuela gesprochen wird. Als Eigenbezeichnung findet man in Tovar folgende Namen: Dialecto, Ditsch, Alemán, Alemannisch, Patua. Das ISO-Kürzel gct kommt von der englischen Bezeichnung Colonia Tovar German.

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- [en] Colonia Tovar dialect

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[es] Alemán coloniero

El alemán coloniero (En alemán: Kolonist deutsch) es un dialecto alemán hablado hoy en el pueblo venezolano de Colonia Tovar por el 13%[2] de descendientes de los alemanes que llegaron al país en 1843, por iniciativa de Agustín Codazzi, procedentes de la Selva Negra en Baden-Wurtemberg, Alemania. Es un dialecto modificado del alemánico, un tipo de alemán superior, subdivisión a su vez del alto alemán, casi incomprensible con el alemán estándar, que también proviene del alto alemán, pues posee en su léxico préstamos lingüísticos del español.[cita requerida]

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[it] Alemán coloniero

L’alemán coloniero è una lingua del gruppo delle lingue tedesche alemanne, appartenente alla famiglia del basso alemanno, parlata a Colonia Tovar, in Venezuela.

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[ru] Алеман колоньеро

Алема́н колонье́ро (Alemán Coloniero) — это нижнеалеманнский диалект немецкого языка, который употребляется в венесуэльской Колонии Товар. В качестве самоназвания диалекта используются понятия: Dialecto, Ditsch, Alemán, Alemannisch или Patua. Обозначение в ISO происходит от английского Colonia Tovar German. Этот диалект, как и другие алеманнские диалекты, очень сложно воспринимаются немцами, говорящими на стандартном немецком.

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