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  • proper noun A Spanish argot that developed at the end of the nineteenth century among the lower classes in and around Buenos Aires and Montevideo.

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Examples

  • Mr. de Rizio enlivens his jokes with an earthy Buenos Aires argot called Lunfardo, which was born in the immigrant underworld in the late 19th century and became the language of tango.

    Argentina Answers 2007

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  • spotted a bbc article on this "20171001-how-italians-influenced-a-south-american-dialect"

    October 2, 2017