Lunfardo
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- Etymology
- Origin
- Lunfardo today
- Characteristics
- Examples
- Nouns
- Verbs
- Interjections
- Modern slang
- Influence from Cocoliche
- Affixes
- See also
- References
- General and cited references
- External links
thumb|right|The word chorros (Lunfardo term meaning "thieves") graffitied on the wall of a BNL bank in [[Buenos Aires, during protests against Corralito, 2002]]
Lunfardo (; from the Italian ) is an argot originated and developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the lower classes in the Río de la Plata region (encompassing the port cities of Buenos Aires in Argentina and Montevideo in Uruguay) and from there spread to other urban areas nearby, such as the Greater Buenos Aires, Santa Fe and Rosario.