Argentina

=== Languages ===
{{Main|Languages of Argentina}}
[[File:Dialectos_del_idioma_español_en_Argentina.png|thumb|upright|Dialectal variants of the [[Spanish language]] in Argentina]]
The ''[[de facto]]''{{efn-ua|Though not declared official ''[[de jure]]'', the Spanish language is the only one used in the wording of laws, decrees, resolutions, official documents and public acts.}} official language is [[Spanish language|Spanish]], spoken by almost all Argentines.{{sfn|Lewis|Simons|Fennig|2014}}
The country is the largest [[Hispanophone|Spanish-speaking society]] that universally employs {{lang|es|[[voseo]]}}, the use of the [[pronoun]] ''vos'' instead of ''tú'' ("you"), which imposes the use of alternative verb forms as well.
Owing to the extensive Argentine geography, Spanish has a strong variation among regions, although the prevalent dialect is ''[[Rioplatense Spanish|Rioplatense]]'', primarily spoken in the Pampean and Patagonian regions and accented similarly to the [[Neapolitan language]].{{sfn|Colantoni|Gurlekian|2004|pp=107–119}} Italian and other European immigrants influenced ''[[Lunfardo]]''—the regional slang—permeating the vernacular vocabulary of other Latin American countries as well.

There are several second-languages in widespread use among the Argentine population: English taught since [[elementary school]]; 42.3% of Argentines claim to speak it, with 15.4% of them claiming to have a high level of language comprehension.{{Citation needed|date=July 2015}}); [[Italian language|Italian]] (by 1.5&nbsp;million people);{{sfn|Lewis|Simons|Fennig|2014}}{{efn-ua|Many elder people also speak a [[macaronic language]] of Italian and Spanish called ''[[cocoliche]]'', which was originated by the Italian immigrants in the late 19th century.}} [[Arabic language|Arabic]] (specially its [[Levantine Arabic|Northern Levantine dialect]], by one million people);{{sfn|Lewis|Simons|Fennig|2014}} [[Standard German]] (by 200,000 people);{{sfn|Lewis|Simons|Fennig|2014}}{{efn-ua|It gave origin to a mixture of Spanish and German called ''[[Belgranodeutsch]]''.}} [[Guarani language|Guaraní]] (by 200,000 people,{{sfn|Lewis|Simons|Fennig|2014}} mostly in Corrientes and Misiones);<ref name="Corrientes-5598">{{Cite Argentine law|jur=CN|l=5598|d=2326/2004|date=22 October 2004|url=https://hcdcorrientes.gov.ar/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Ley5598.pdf}}</ref> [[Catalan language|Catalan]] (by 174,000 people);{{sfn|Lewis|Simons|Fennig|2014}} [[Quechua language|Quechua]] (by 65,000 people, mostly in the Northwest);{{sfn|Lewis|Simons|Fennig|2014}} [[Wichí languages|Wichí]] (by 53,700 people, mainly in Chaco{{sfn|Lewis|Simons|Fennig|2014}} where, along with [[Kom language (South America)|Kom]] and [[Moqoit language|Moqoit]], it is official ''de jure'');<ref name=kom>{{cite Argentine law|jur=CC|l=6604|bo=9092|date=28 July 2010}}</ref> [[Vlax Romani language|Vlax Romani]] (by 52,000 people);{{sfn|Lewis|Simons|Fennig|2014}} [[Albanian language|Albanian]] (by [[Albanians in South America|40,000 people]]);<ref>{{cite web|url=http://edoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/HALCoRe_derivate_00003672/Albanianmigration.pdf |title=Albanian migration and development: state of the art review|access-date=9 July 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916221528/http://edoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/HALCoRe_derivate_00003672/Albanianmigration.pdf |archive-date=16 September 2016}}</ref> [[Japanese language|Japanese]] (by 32,000 people);{{sfn|Lewis|Simons|Fennig|2014}} [[Aymara language|Aymara]] (by 30,000 people, mostly in the Northwest);{{sfn|Lewis|Simons|Fennig|2014}} [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]] (by 27,000 people);{{sfn|Lewis|Simons|Fennig|2014}}