Argentina

Culture

See also the articles on the cuisine, the music, and the football of Argentina. For a prevalent custom among Argentinians, see mate. For the traditional Buenos Aires dance, see tango.

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Also see the list of people from Argentina.

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Language

The only official language is Spanish, although some immigrants and indigenous communities have retained their original languages in specific points of the country.

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Argentina is the largest Spanish-speaking community that employs voseo (the use of the pronoun vos instead of t?). The most prevalent dialect is Rioplatense, with most speakers located in the basin of River Plate.

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Religion

Most of Argentina's population is at least nominally Roman Catholic. Roman Catholicism is supported by the Argentine state, as stated in the constitution. Evangelical churches gained a place in Argentina especially since the 1980s. The country also has the largest Jewish population in Latin America, about 300,000 strong, and is home to one of the largest Islamic mosques in Latin America. Traditional Protestant communities are also present.

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Cuisine: A cuisine (from French cuisine, meaning "cooking; culinary art; kitchen"; itself from Latin coquina, meaning the same; itself from the Latin verb coquere, meaning "to cook") is a specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a place of origin. Religious food laws can also e...

Music: Music is a natural intuitive phenomenon operating in the three worlds of time, pitch, energy, and under the three distinct and interrelated organization structures of rhythm, harmony, and melody....

Football: This article deals with the history and development of the different sports around the world known as "football". For links to articles on each of these codes of football, please see the list in the Football today section of this article....

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