An umbrella project for the projects about music, political leaders, artists and other significant contributors to the culture, history, and landscape of the Río de la Plata.

Geografía

Historia

• Proyecto sobre Gobernación del Río de la Plata
• Proyecto sobre el Virreinato del Río de la Plata

Cultura

Actores y actrices Rioplatenses

Argentina

• Florencio Parravicini
• Mirtha Legrand
• Susana Giménez

Uruguay

• China Zorrilla
• Taco Larreta
• Sancho Gracia

Comunicadores Rioplatenses

Argentina

• Magdalena Ruiz Guiñazú
• Marcelo Tinelli

Uruguay

• Facundo Ponce de Leon

Deportistas Rioplatenses

Uruguay

• Diego Perez

Escritores y dramaturgos Rioplatenses

Argentina

• Armando Tejada Gomez
• Maria Elena Walsh

Uruguay

• Florencio Sánchez

Músicos, Compositores y Cantantes Rioplatenses

• Proyecto sobre Música de Argentina
• Proyecto sobre Tango

Argentina

• Fabiana Cantilo
• Fito Paez
• Mercedes Sosa
• Horacio Guaraní
• Astor Piazzolla

Uruguay

• Jorge Drexler
• Luciano Supervielle
• Gerardo Matos Rodríguez
• Carlos Gardel

Lingüística

El español rioplatense o castellano rioplatense es una variedad dialectal del español hablada en Argentina y en Uruguay. Su uso se extiende en la zona de la cuenca del Río de la Plata, en Argentina y Uruguay, y otras regiones aledañas.

(E) Voseo: the usage of the pronoun vos for the second person singular, instead of tú. In other Spanish-speaking regions where voseo is used, it is typically considered a nonstandard lower-class sociolectic or regional variant; whereas in Argentina, voseo is standard.

Intonation that resemble that of Italian dialects, stemming from the linguistic influence of the huge numbers of Italian settlers since the 19th century.

Lunfardo: The Lunfardo is a slang originated and developed in the lower classes in and around Buenos Aires. Lunfardo (or briefly,lunfa) appeared during the second half of the nineteenth century with the great contribution of the various immigration, especially the Italian, and words from American-Indian, African and gaucho origin which had already existed in Argentina.

Examples:

• fiaca - laziness, or lazy person (from the Italian fiacco "weak")
• guita - money
• pibe - like "kid", a common term for boy or, in more recent times, for young man
• morfar - to eat (from French argot morfer "to eat")

Sources

1. Español rioplatense
2. United States Merchant Ships in the Rio de La Plata (1801-1808)