Buenos Aires Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Language=== {{See also|Belgranodeutsch|Cocoliche}} Buenos Aires' dialect of Spanish, which is known as ''[[Rioplatense Spanish]]'', is distinguished by its use of ''[[voseo]]'', ''[[yeísmo]]'', and aspiration of ''s'' in various contexts. It is heavily influenced by the dialects of Spanish spoken in [[Andalusia]] and [[Murcia]] and shares its features with that of other cities like [[Rosario]] and [[Montevideo]], Uruguay. In the early 20th century, Argentina absorbed millions of immigrants, many of them Italians, who spoke mostly in their local dialects (mainly Neapolitan, [[Sicilian language|Sicilian]] and [[Genoese language|Genoese]]). Their adoption of Spanish was gradual, creating a [[pidgin]] of Italian dialects and Spanish that was called ''[[cocoliche]]''. Its usage declined around the 1950s. A phonetic study conducted by the Laboratory for Sensory Investigations of [[National Scientific and Technical Research Council|CONICET]] and the [[University of Toronto]] showed that the [[prosody (linguistics)|prosody]] of ''[[porteño]]'' is closer to the [[Neapolitan language]] of Italy than to any other spoken language.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/762441-napolitanos-y-portenos-unidos-por-el-acento |title=Napolitanos y porteños, unidos por el acento |date=6 December 2005 |publisher=Lanacion.com.ar |access-date=13 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130725031043/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/762441-napolitanos-y-portenos-unidos-por-el-acento |archive-date=25 July 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> Many Spanish immigrants were from [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]], and Spaniards are still generically referred to in Argentina as ''gallegos'' ([[Galician people|Galicians]]). [[Galician language]], cuisine and culture had a major presence in the city for most of the 20th century. In recent years, descendants of Galician immigrants have led a small boom in [[Celtic music]] (which also highlighted the [[Y Wladfa|Welsh traditions of Patagonia]]). [[Yiddish language|Yiddish]] was commonly heard in Buenos Aires, especially in the [[Balvanera]] garment district and in [[Villa Crespo]] until the 1960s. Most of the newer immigrants learn Spanish quickly and assimilate into city life. The ''[[Lunfardo]]'' [[argot]] originated within the prison population, and in time spread to all ''porteños''. Lunfardo uses words from Italian dialects, from [[Brazilian Portuguese]], from African and Caribbean languages and even from English. Lunfardo employs humorous tricks such as inverting the syllables within a word ([[vesre]]). Today, Lunfardo is mostly heard in tango lyrics;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~tango/Articles/2001_Economist.pdf|title=A sense of where you were|website=Web.ics.purdue.edu|access-date=5 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160909015550/http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~tango/Articles/2001_Economist.pdf|archive-date=9 September 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> the slang of the younger generations has been evolving away from it. Buenos Aires was also the first city to host a [[Mundo Lingo]] event on 7 July 2011, which have been after replicated in up to 15 cities in 13 countries.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://mundolingo.org/history|title= History of Mundo Lingo|author= <!--Not stated-->|date= 2017|website= mundolingo.org|access-date= 5 November 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171113140811/http://mundolingo.org/history|archive-date= 13 November 2017|url-status= dead|df= dmy-all}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page