Belgranodeutsch is a mixture of German and Spanish spoken in Buenos Aires, specifically in the neighborhood of Belgrano. The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Buenos Aires is the Capital and largest city of Argentina. It is geographically located on the southern shore of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern Manuel José Joaquín del Corazón de Jesús Belgrano, usually referred to as Manuel Belgrano ( June 3, 1770 &ndash June 20, 1820
It was spoken by the German community living in both Belgrano "R" (residential) and Belgrano "C" (commercial). There were two main schools in the neighborhood, the Goethe Schule and the Pestalozzi Schule - around the Second World War there was a certain division of political and religious origin between the two schools.
Belgranodeutsch still survives today and can be compared to the "Spanglish" spoken in the USA. Spanglish espanglish, espaninglish, el Spanish broken, ingléspañol, ingleñol
English had a similar effect on Spanish. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The mix of Argentinean Spanish and English can be found in the book Simon Writes.
Examples:
- Leihst du mir mal deine goma? (Can I borrow your eraser / rubber?)
- Traducierst du das mal? (Could you translate this?)
- Das ist ein asco. An eraser or rubber is an article of Stationery that is used for removing Pencil and sometimes Pen writings (That is disgusting)
- "Kann ich dich eine "fasso mangieren"?" (from "manguear un faso", a very informal way of asking for a cigarette)