Most of them were from Galicia, Basque Country, Andalusia, or the Canary Islands.

Italian and Portuguese immigrants from the late 19th and the early 20th century have also had an influence; they influenced vocabulary and its accent, given its slight sing-songy intonation, like Rioplatense Spanish.

The Spaniards additionally brought African slaves, which is the origin of expressions such as chévere ("excellent"), which comes from Yoruba ché egberi.

Other non-Romance words came from indigenous languages, such as guayoyo (a type of coffee) and caraota (black bean).

There are several subdialects of Venezuelan Spanish: The Venezuelan dialect influences of Patois of Trinidad and Papiamento, the language spoken and taught most in Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao.