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Indeed, the "lunfardo" word comes from a deformation of "lombardo", an Italian dialect (from Lombardia) spoken by northern Italian emigrants to the Buenos Aires region. Other local dialects in Latinoamerica created by the Italian emigrants are the Talian dialect in Brazil and the Chipilo dialect in Mexico. The following is a small list:
Cocoliche is an Italian–Spanish contact language or pidgin that was spoken by Italian immigrants between 1870 and 1970 in Argentina (especially in Greater Buenos Aires) and from there spread to other urban areas nearby, such as La Plata, Rosario and Montevideo, Uruguay. In recent decades it has become more respected and even recorded in music ...
In Standard Italian: a me piace or mi piace ("I like it"; literally, "it pleases me") In Tuscan: a me mi piace or a me mi garba ("I like it") This usage is widespread throughout the central regions of Italy, not only in Tuscany, and is often considered redundant and erroneous by language purists.
Spanish: ñam: ñam ñam: glu glu glu, glup: glup: Swedish: nam-nam: nam nam: glugg glugg, klunk klunk: gulp: Tamil: கருக்கு முறுக்கு (karukk murukk) (mainly used to indicate crunching) Thai: งั่บ (ngap), ง่ำ (ngam) ง่ำ ง่ำ (ngam ngam) อึ้ก (uek), เอื้อก (ueak ...
McMahon or MacMahon (/ m ə k ˈ m æ n / mək-MAN or / m ə k ˈ m ɑː n / mək-MAHN; older Irish orthography: Mac Mathghamhna; reformed Irish orthography: Mac Mathúna; meaning "son of the bear") [1] is an Irish surname.
Every morning with cup of hot tea, Michael McMahan takes in the unpolished wildness of L.A.'s 4,000-acre Griffith Park behind his apartment complex. When he's lucky, he captures images of P-22 ...
D: English name Names in different languages Democratic Republic of the Congo: Cộng hòa Dân chủ Công-gô (Vietnamese), Demakratyčnaja Respublika Konha - Дэмакратычная Рэспубліка Конга (Belarusian), Demokratia Respubliko Kongo (Esperanto), Demokratičeskaja Respublika Kongo - Демократическая Республика Конго (Russian ...
Spanish rule had hastened this process in two important ways: Unlike the Aragonese, almost immediately the Spanish placed viceroys on the Sicilian throne. In a sense, the diminishing prestige of the Sicilian kingdom reflected the decline of Sicilian from an official, written language to eventually a spoken language amongst a predominantly ...