nearby cities such as Rosario (in the Santa Fe Province) and Montevideo, Uruguay. The word comes from "Lombard", a language spoken mainly in Lombardy (a region located in northern Italy). The sounds of the lunfardo feed mainly on the languages of Italy, especially the northern ones, because in Buenos Aires the Italian colony is very extensive and has left onomasiology and terminology a vast lexical heritage. Additionally, lunfardo has taken its own words, expressions, or ways of speaking (borrowings) from various languages ​​such as French, Portuguese, English; other words arrived from the pampa by means of the gauchos; and a few came from Argentina's native population. Lunfardo words are inserted in the normal flow of Rioplatense Spanish sentences. Thus, a Spanish-speaking Mexican reading tango lyrics needs only the translation of a discrete set of words, not a grammar guide. Most tango lyrics use lunfardo sparsely, but some songs (such as El Ciruja, or most lyrics by Celedonio Flores) employ lunfardo heavily. Here are some examples: Parlar – To speak (cfr. Italian parlare, Neapolitan parlà - to speak) Manyar – To know / to eat (cfr. Italian mangiare, Sicilian manciari - to eat) Mina – Female (cfr. Italian femmina ("female"), Sicilian fimmina ("woman")) Laburar – To work (cfr. Italian lavorare, Venetian laorar - to work) Fiaca – laziness (cfr. Italian fiacco, Piedmontese fiach - exhausted) Chapar – To kiss / to grab (cfr. Piedmontese ciapé, Venetian ciapar - to grab) Buonyorno – Good morning (cfr. Italian buongiorno – good morning) Pibe – Boy (cfr. old Italian pivo – boy, apprentice) Birra – Beer (cfr. Italian, Neapolitan birra – beer) Mufa – Unlucky person (cfr. Italian muffa, Piedmontese mofa – mold) Between about 1880 and 1900, Argentina received a large number of peasants from the South of Italy, who arrived with little or no schooling in Spanish. As the immigrants strove to communicate with the local criollos, they produced a variable mixture of Spanish with Italian languages and dialects, specially Neapolitan. The pidgin language was given the derogatory name cocoliche by the locals. Since the children of the immigrants grew up speaking Spanish at school, work, and military service, Cocoliche remained confined mostly to the first generation immigrants and slowly fell out of use. The pidgin has been depicted humorously in literary works and in the Argentine sainete theater, such as by Dario Vittori. Cuisine Argentine cuisine has been strongly influenced by