Colonia Tovar dialect

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

Colonia Tovar
Alemán Coloniero
Deutsch Schwarzwald
Native toVenezuela
Native speakers
1,500 (2009)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3gct
Glottologcolo1254[2]
IETFgct[3]

Characteristics

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 language has also acquired some Spanish loanwords and influenced Venezuelan Spanish.

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).

References
  1. Colonia Tovar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Colonia Tovar German". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. "Colonia Tovar German". IANA language subtag registry. 29 July 2009.


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