cocoliche
cocoliche is the alternative letter-case form of Cocoliche.
Proper noun capitalized: Cocoliche
Cocoliche
- A pidgin or language continuum formed from Italian and Spanish, spoken in parts of the River Plate region of South America between the late nineteenth century and the 1970s.
- Indeed, cocoliche might in some respects be seen as another example of dialectal influence upon Italian – except that in this case the ‘dialect’ is another Romance ‘language’, and not an Italo-Romance variety.1995, Martin Maiden, A Linguistic History of Italian, Longman, published 2003, page 269
Forms of cocoliche
| alternative form | cocoliche |
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Origin of cocoliche
Unadapted borrowing from Spanish cocoliche, named after Cocoliche, a fictional comedic character inspired by the broken Spanish of Calabrian immigrant Antonio Cuccolicchio during a stage improvisation.
Questions about cocoliche
- What does cocoliche mean?
- Cocoliche means a pidgin or language continuum formed from Italian and Spanish, spoken in parts of the River Plate region of South America between the late nineteenth century and the 1970s.
- What is cocoliche the alternative letter-case form of?
- Cocoliche is the alternative letter-case form of Cocoliche.
- What part of speech is cocoliche?
- Cocoliche is a proper noun.
Words near cocoliche in the dictionary
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