Uruguayan Spanish

Uruguayan Spanish
Uruguayan Spanish
castellano uruguayo
Pronunciation	[espaˈɲol uɾuˈɣwaʝo]
Native to	Uruguay
Region	Río de la Plata
Native speakers	3,347,800, all users in Uruguay (2014); L1 users: 3,270,000 ; L2 users: 77,800
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Romance Italo-Western Western Ibero-Romance West Iberian Castilian Spanish Rioplatense Spanish Uruguayan Spanish; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Proto-Indo-European Proto-Italic Old Latin Vulgar Latin Proto-Romance Old Spanish Early Modern Spanish ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin (Spanish alphabet)
Official status
Official language in	Uruguay (de facto)
Regulated by	Academia Nacional de Letras
Language codes
ISO 639-1	es
ISO 639-2	spa
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None
IETF	es-UY
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Uruguayan Spanish (Spanish: castellano uruguayo), a part of Rioplatense Spanish, is the variety of Spanish spoken in Uruguay and by the Uruguayan diaspora.^[3]