Alemán Coloneiro, or Colonia Tovar, is an Alemannic language derived from southern dialects of German. Alemannic (Alemannisch) belongs to the Upper German branch of the Germanic language family. ... As with any complex, emergent concept, language is somewhat resistant to definition. ... German (called Deutsch in German; in German the term germanisch is equivalent to English Germanic), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and is one of the worlds major languages. ...

The language, which is not intelligible with Standard German, is spoken by the descendants of German settlers in Venezuela. Most speakers also know Spanish, and their language has also some Spanish loanwords. German (called Deutsch in German; in German the term germanisch is equivalent to English Germanic), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and is one of the worlds major languages. ... The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish: República Bolivariana de Venezuela)1 is a country in northern South America. ... This article is about the international language known as Spanish. ...

External link

Ethnologue report for Alemán Coloneiro (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=GCT)