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Languages of Uruguay

The Linguasphere Register records 10 entries for Uruguay, spread across 3 of its ten sectors. Each row below links to the Register entry, where the sets, chains and individual languages underneath it can be opened.

10Register entries
3Sectors present
5Zones
2Language entries

4= EURASIA 5= INDO-EUROPEAN 8= SOUTH-AMERICA

Register entries recorded in Uruguay

CodeEntryLevelNote
40=EUSKARICZoneCovers "Basque" or "Euskarian" isolated set.
51-AAA-amfronteiriçoInnerfronterizo, "hispano-brazilian". fronteiriço =«frontier». transition to [51] Español.
51-AAA-bbespañol-FInnerespañol académico, lingua castellana, "formal castillian spanish", "literary castillian", "standard castillian".
51=ROMANICZoneCovers the "Romance" or Italiano + Româneasca set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity.
52-ANORSK + FRYSKSetGERMANIC,.
52-ACFRYSK + DEUTSCHChainCONTINENTAL-WEST-GERMANIC, "frisian" + "teutonic". for note on the term "teutonic" see [52] Deutsch + Nederlands below. …
52-ACBDEUTSCH + NEDERLANDSNetGERMAN + DUTCH, deutsch + "dutch", ’teutonic’. The modern spoken and recorded idioms of this net are classified below …
52=GERMANICZoneCovers the "Germanic" or Norsk + Frysk set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity.
85=PRE-ANDESZone
88=TUPICZoneCovers the "wider Tupian" grouping.

Country placements come from the geographic data published with the Linguasphere Register. They mark where a speech community is recorded, not where a language is official. See sources and attribution.