Alemán Coloniero

language
name=Alemán Coloniero
states=Venezuela
speakers=Unknown
familycolor=Indo-European
fam2=Germanic
fam3=West Germanic
fam4=High German
fam5=Upper German
fam6=Alemannic
fam7=Low Alemannic
iso2=gem
iso3=gct

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

The language, like other Alemannic dialects is not mutually intelligible with Standard German, 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.

Literature

*Hernández, Marlene Elanco: " _es. Introducción al analisis gramatical del Aleman de la Colonia Tovar." Universidad Central de Venzuela. 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: " _de. Die deutsche Sprache in der Colonia Tovar (Venezuela) - Eine soziolinguistische Untersuchung." München 1995.
* Kanzler, Samuel Briceño: " _es. La Colonia Tovar y su gente." Tovar, o. J. ( _de. Titel in deutsch übersetzt: Die Colonia Tovar und ihre Menschen).

External links

* [http://www.venezuelatuya.com/centro/coloniatovareng.htm Informationen über "Colonia Tovar" bei www.venezuelatuya.com]
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=gct Ethnologue report for Alemán Coloniero]
* [http://www.swr.de/regionen/freiburg/colonia-tovar/-/id=3308/nid=3308/did=1167602/1tgol5b/index.html Fotos, Audios and language on SWR.de]
* [http://www.margaritainfo.com/festlandziele_colonia_tovar.htm Informations on "Colonia Tovar" bei www.margaritainfo.com]
* [http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2007/12/18/828480.html Report on the village of Colonia Tovar. People speak there a special german slang "alemannisch"]
* [http://www.coloniatovar.net Website of Colonia Tovar]