page_title: Lunfardo
hierarchical_section_title: Lunfardo
caption_attribution_description: Español: Manifestación de ahorristas argentinos contra el Corralito financiero. Pintada "CHORROS" (en lunfardo: ladrones) en una sucursal de la BNL ubicada en Corrientes y San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
context_page_description: Lunfardo is an argot originated and developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the lower classes in Buenos Aires and from there spread to other cities nearby, such as the surrounding area Greater Buenos Aires, Rosario and Montevideo.
  Originally, Lunfardo was a slang used by criminals and soon by other people of the lower and lower-middle classes. Later, many of its words and phrases were introduced in the vernacular and disseminated in the Spanish of Argentina, and Uruguay. Nevertheless, since the early 20th century, Lunfardo has spread among all social strata and classes by habitual use or because it was common in the lyrics of tango.
  Today, the meaning of the term lunfardo has been extended to designate any slang or jargon used in Buenos Aires.
context_section_description: Lunfardo ([luɱˈfaɾðo]; from the Italian lombardo or inhabitant of Lombardy in the local dialect) is an argot originated and developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the lower classes in Buenos Aires and from there spread to other cities nearby, such as the surrounding area Greater Buenos Aires, Rosario and Montevideo.
  Originally, Lunfardo was a slang used by criminals and soon by other people of the lower and lower-middle classes. Later, many of its words and phrases were introduced in the vernacular and disseminated in the Spanish of Argentina, and Uruguay. Nevertheless, since the early 20th century, Lunfardo has spread among all social strata and classes by habitual use or because it was common in the lyrics of tango.
  Today, the meaning of the term lunfardo has been extended to designate any slang or jargon used in Buenos Aires.
caption: The word chorros (Lunfardo term meaning "thieves") graffitied on the wall of a BNL bank in Buenos Aires, during protests against Corralito, 2002.
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